Subject: Good Cooling???]
From: Rotary Engine
Date: 1/24/2009, 7:57 AM
To: AAA Put this in the To box


   While I was at the Sebring show today I found the air cam cooling
system to be rather odd but interesting. It's a twin pusher with the
radiators on the top of the wing and a NACA duct feeding from the bottom
of the wing. My question is this a efficient or good way of ducting air
and getting real good cooling results?

Tom/norpro

If I have to use a NACA duct the bottom of the wing is a good place
for it as it is a high pressure area. It all depends on the rad core size.
Obviously it works for this airplane.

Paul Lamar


Airflow over the aircraft skin creates drag.
Airflow over the surfaces of the radiator creates drag.
If we could find a way to use the skin as a radiator then
could we get rid of the radiator drag?

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Jeffrey John Martin

It's been done several times before. The Schneider cup racers used
it. You need so much surface area it rapidly becomes impractical
to cover the entire airplane with a double skin. The early P38's had a leading
edge double skin used as an intercooler. It was not enough so they
went to conventional intercoolers.

Paul Lamar

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