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To answer you question, Bill.

No, got a filter and an enclosure but never found a satisfactory location. I did have a foam covering over the intake duct (which I now install after each flight) and I DID clean the intake duct. Took the hose off and cleaned the interior it with a damp cloth, so the engine was better off than I was. I simply did not think of my cockpit Naca airscoops (or rather their ducts) being filled with the junk.

----- Original Message -----

From: William

To: Rotary motors in aircraft

Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 10:58 PM

Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: A good? flight.

Ed,

Did you ever get that air filter for the engine installed? If (the cockpit was immediately filled with dust and debris (straw mostly) blown out of the duct hose) then the same was likely being sucked through your engine.

Bill Schertz
KIS Cruiser # 4045

----- Original Message -----

From: Ed Anderson

To: Rotary motors in aircraft

Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 12:04 PM

Subject: [FlyRotary] A good? flight.

It was starting to get warm so I opened one of the eyeball ventilation vents (did I mention that the construction had stirred up a LOT of dust) and the cockpit was immediately filled with dust and debris (straw mostly) blown out of the duct hose. The dust immediately (static electricity?) coated the inside of the canopy which facing into the sun dropped visibility to near zero. Immediately turned 90 deg to the direction of the sun and could again see out the canopy.

Finally the dust and straw stopped flying and I had a soft cloth to wipe off the canopy. So continued the flight. .rr.com