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        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueI4xhgTGv8 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueI4xhgTGv8>

        Paul Lamar


   Paul, I got 2 minutes , 13 seconds. That is very impressive. What now?

   Steve Carlisle

   We need a better prop. A six blade ground adjustable Warp drive would do
   it I think.
   We could up the 60 Hg boost with a better prop and get 30% more thrust
   according
   to two different sources. Wider blades or more blades. Back in WW II
   that was
   discovered by the builders of the P47. Mentioned in a book called P-47
   Thunderbolt
   Combat Missions by Jonathan Bernstein.

   Rarely do you get the right prop when you order a fixed pitch prop from the
   few fixed pitch prop makers left. We have known this for 20 years. That
   is why
   I recommend a ground adjustable prop. There are about half a dozen prop
   makers
   now making ground adjustable props based on the warp drive hub. Including
   venerable Sensinich.

   Other than that I don't know.  They have some problems with the oil
   pressure.
   I made some suggestions and Dan got angry and refused to do anything
   about it. I am getting the impressions that they are not really
   committed to this.

   Russ is senile if not  Alzheimer's. The last time I saw him about 2
   years ago in Oz
   he was not coherent.

   His son is now in charge of paying the bills. He is not a rotor head and
   thinks
   people are influencing his father to waist money on silly automotive based
   technical  projects.

   When I first met Russ about 5 or 6 years ago here in California we did
   not talk about
   setting any records or anything like that. He was just another rotor
   head. He had been on
   the news letter for a long time. Then I saw him in
   Oz and he invited us to stay at his apartment. I still had no indication
   he was going to
   do this project.


   Then I found out he had contracted Racing Beat to do this project.
   I then started to upload messages about it on the newsletter so if you kept
   all those it would be well documented.

   He hired an engineer to manage it. I visited Racing beat and the engine
   was far
   along. Russ had bought a Harmon rocket and it was out in a hangar in Corona
   airport. The prop was at Racing Beat. Kind of premature to buy a prop IMHO.
   Turned out the HP specs on the prop were wrong. Too weak so to speak.

   Then the project arrived at SZP to my surprise. I then got involved.
   There were
   conflicts with the gear box configuration, coupling  and other
   engineering problems.
   The engineer was fired and we changed the gear box configuration
   and I designed an effective coupling.

   Then there were problems with the
   turbo and the waist gate. The turbo looked like it came out of
   somebodies junk box.
   They bought a new turbo and I redesigned and reconstructed  the junk
   waste gate to a manual control. I was not getting paid. I volunteered to
   help.

   Dan then successfully flew the air plane in Cal City. Then they brought
   it back
   to SZP and Dan flew it here. Dan was not comfortable flying it in SZP
   because it was not surrounded by land suitable for forced landings.
   Then Dan flew it to Oxnard a safer location.

   There were a lot of problems with the wiring. Dan installed a lithium
   iron battery and that failed by shorting out killing the voltage
   the voltage to the Motec so the engine refused to start.
   Dan used all white wire with no markings and no schematic.
   It took many hours for me to sort that out. Don't do that.
   At least use colored or labeled wire for different things.

   Now we discovered we have oil pressure problems. There is a low cost
   fix but Dan got angry for some strange reason  and did not want to do it
   when I suggested  them. I am not really sure what is going on now.

   Here is the problem with the oil pickup. You can see the oil pressure
   drop in the Video. It is on the lower right part of the screen. I
   think the pump is cavatating. Nils agrees. You can see that in
   the Motec data logging as a scratchy line.

   Here are my suggestions for fixing the problem.

   I think that stupidly long six inch diameter  sump tank came from Racing
   Beat's
   junk box  along with the turbo and the  waste gate :-)
   I just wanted to cut it off and weld on a flat plate bottom.

   Paul Lamar


   Paul, thanks for taking the time for that historical rundown on the TTC. It sure seems
   that fixing these glitches will put it very close to
   the record,

   Steve Carlisle


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