The engine is missing. we are working on that. I just found out
the Motec rich-ens it up if the engine is too cool.
At 120 F and lower some times the engine is definitely TOO cool.
This is the coolest rotary engine in an aircraft I have EVER seen
bar none in 18 years. Of course this is the first ac rotary running
on methanol.
I think we need to tape over part of the rad air intake.
That will reduce the aero drag.
Obviously I over did the cooling system design.
Paul Lamar
Nice! You guys going to put a cowling on that or just do without?
Dave Leonard
I don't Know. It depends on the climb rate and angle.
It is still accelerating at 60 degrees.
In theory it will climb vertically at 175 MPH but I think the prop
blades are too skinny for that. In that case aero drag is not all
that important. It is mostly an elevator math problem dating
back to the days of Watt and horses lifting water out of mines.
Dan's composite people are real good so it would not take long.
Paul Lamar
Horses lifting water out of mines????
Say Watt??????
Is this a case of mine over matter??????
john dinkel
"While Watt came up with the exact measurement of what would become
“horsepower,” he was not the first to propose the idea of equating a
steam engine’s power to a horse’s. The first documented instance of this
was suggested by British inventor Thomas Savery who wrote the following
in a letter in 1702:"
"So that an engine which will raise as much water as two horses, working
together at one time in such a work, can do, and for which there must be
constantly kept ten or twelve horses for doing the same. Then I say,
such an engine may be made large enough to do the work required in
employing eight, ten, fifteen, or twenty horses to be constantly
maintained and kept for doing such a work…"
"A few Savery engines were tried in mines, an unsuccessful attempt being
made to use one to clear water from a pool called Broad Waters in
Wednesbury (then in Staffordshire) and nearby coal mines."
Paul Lamar
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