Very impressive indeed.  Another one or two orders of magnitude
improvement and we can forget the rotary and just put an electric motor
up front (or out back if you're so inclined).  Now that would be
simple, reliable, and quiet too boot.  How about it Bill?  Can you give
me 175 HP for 4-5 hours in 200 lbs or so?  (Damn the cost, that would
be worth taking out a new mortgage on the house.) ;)

Bob W.


On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 20:36:29 -0400
"Ed Anderson" <eanderson@carolina.rr.com> wrote:

<snip>
>
> Very impressed with your electric drag bike endeavors - got to be almost as
> good as flying a rotary {:>)
>
> Ed
>
> Ed Anderson
> Rv-6A N494BW Rotary Powered
> Matthews, NC
> eanderson@carolina.rr.com
> http://members.cox.net/rogersda/rotary/configs.htm#N494BW
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Dube" <William.P.Dube@noaa.gov>
> To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 7:50 PM
> Subject: [FlyRotary] Nothing to do with Rotary Engines, but....
>
>
> > This has absolutely nothing to do with rotary engines, but I thought I'd
> > show you what has been distracting me from my airplane construction as of
> > late.
> >
> > For those of you that don't already know, my other hobby is drag racing an
> > electric motorcycle. (It takes a team of people to do this, not just me.)
> > We recently managed to get sponsorship from A123 Systems. These batteries
> > are like "Mr. Fusion" in the movie "Back to the Future." Enormous power
> > and a bottomless pit of energy. The more I work with these batteries, the
> > more impressed I become.
> >
> >    Here is a clip of the bike doing a burn-out:
> >
> > http://www.killacycle.com/Burnout.wmv
> >
> >    Here is a clip of the bike turning parts of  the rear motor into molten
> > copper as it goes down the strip:
> >
> > http://www.killacycle.com/Second%20Run.wmv
> >
> >     We can do six burn-outs and six runs without recharging if we cared
> > to. Maybe seven.
> >
> >    The 170 battery pack puts out over 350 HP. The battery pack is 376
> > volts, 1350 amps, and has 18.4 A-hrs. We charge up in about 15 minutes
> > after every run.
> >
> >    I plan to start building airplane batteries with them soon, by the way.
> > It will be late Winter, probably. A123 Systems batteries are ideal for
> > aircraft. They are lightweight, powerful, robust, long cycle life, and
> > very, very safe. I'm pretty sure I can build a battery that will crank 500
> > amps, but will weigh less than 3 lbs.
> >
> >    I guess it had something to do with airplanes.... :-)
> >
> > Bill Dube'
> >
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