Last time we flew the TTC we had no intake manifold  water injection.
Usually considered essential for turbo engines.
Wiring error on the water pump. I did not do it!

Intake manifold air temperature got up to 300 F.
With 60 inches of Hg manifold pressure and 8000 RPM  this would have
blown a piston engine sky high.

It still climbed out of sight in 27 seconds.
Then it climbed 75 to 80 degrees near vertical  some where
between 90 and 110 kts.
That translated to something  like 10,000 feet per minute.

I was worried about the engine.
So I set up the Maximite to record compression. I expected
to see some cracked apex seals.

Nothing. The engine came through OK.

Here are the plots of the compression data.
Each spike is one rotor face compression.

And the take off video.

If we had wider blades on the prop we could jack the boost up
to 80 inches of Hg. At 8000 RPM the tips are going super sonic.

I don't think we need it but it is an option if we don't quite get the record.

We will fly it again tomorrow after noon at Oxnard airport.

Paul Lamar

       Paul, how does that program print the graph?

       Steve Carlisle

       The Maximite program does not do it.
       It stores the data as a comma delimited text file. Here is the raw data.
       It is basically just text so you can read it with any simple editor.

       Then you load it into a spread sheet program and that can plot it.
       I use free LibreOffficeCalc running on Linux.

       Paul Lamar

   Does the ttc engine have side port exhaust?
   Richie Barrow

   No. All p-ports.

   Paul Lamar



How much intake to exhaust overlap are you running?

Richie Barrow

P-Ports give you a lot. Just like a jet engine. The connection
is never closed.

This is mainly due to the depression in the rotor face.

The rotary is a continuous combustion engine more like a turbine
engine rather than a piston engine. The fact alone that it fires
once per rev is a clue.

Piston engine concepts of valve over lap can not be used.
The dynamics of the gas flow make it work. Same as a jet engine.

Paul Lamar


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