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From: Tracy Crook

To: Rotary motors in aircraft

Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 11:23 PM

Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: air filters?

 

Aren’t you getting an EM-2 as well?  It will be interesting to compare temps, though to be fair, you’ll have to measure in the Summer, and I’ll measure in the Winter to make up for the change of latitude :-)

Rusty 

 

I'm counting on it. (hint, hint). Tracy hasn't been responding to any recent hints on this subject, so I can only surmise that he's busy building EM-2's as fast as he can.

I'm wondering about mosquitoes? Should I ensure they're filtered out of the intake air, or would I get additional boost by burning the little %#!$? ;-)

S. Todd Bartrim

Sorry for the lack of communication on the EM2 but between fighting web server problems and finishing the operating system for the EM2 I have had little time left over.  As John Slade mentioned, "feature creep" has reared it's ugly head and added a lot of complexity to the program code but I'm really psyched about how well it is turning out.  Newly added features are TAS (instead of IAS),  Percent of engine power,  horsepower based on BSFC & fuel flow, MPG display and bargraph display for some functions in addition to the usual digital presentation.  The sample display layout shown on the website is already obsolete.

Finally had to take a break and fly the RVotter to New Symerna yesterday for a local RV lunch.  First flight in a couple of weeks.  Man that felt good!

PS,  9 years of inhaleing bugs has had no adverse affect on my engine.  My test stand engine also inhaled a lot of epoxy from hastily assembled intake manifolds with no apparent damage.

Tracy