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At 12:04 AM 10/18/2002 -0400, you wrote:
Are any of you guys flying willing to provide your airplane
> as a testbed?
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> Mike Wills
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Uuummm, you could give the $65 to me ;-) AUD, USD, CDN, I don't care.
But I have put money & time where my mouth is. And first flight is so damn
close..... yet so far.
S. Todd Bartrim
Todd,
I know you said it in jest, but... no sale. I'd like to see a test of the EWP using a baseline config that has already been proven using the stock Mazda pump. If your setup fails to work do we blame the EWP, your choice of radiator (I too have read that Ford evap cores are a no-no), ducting, etc... Unlike Leon, I wont need data from a complete data acquisition system to be convinced. Conversion of a proven successfully flying Mazda powered aircraft to an EWP and the word of the guy willing to take on the challenge would be good enough for me. Too bad that none of the guys flying appear to be willing to accept the challenge, but cant say I blame them. When mine finally flies I think I'll just fly it for a while and let others persue the experimentation.
I'm still on Paul's list and as far as I've seen there hasnt been anything metioned about this thread. Coincidently, someone over there did bring up the subject, unrelated to this thread here, and Paul gave his stock answer. I see no point in mentioning it on his list again until someone proves on an aircraft (not a dyno) that it works.
I agree (as I said previously) that any theoretical analysis can be proven wrong. As they say, garbage in, garbage out. The theoretical analysis I've seen posted here appears to be sound although the assumptions made for input data may or may not be valid. Those of you who are dismissing the theoretical analysis on the basis of flawed input, do you have better input data to plug into the analysis to support your argument?
In my opinion, making assumptions on the basis of proven performance in race car applications, on dynos, etc... are every bit as questionable as making assumptions based on theoretical analysis which may be based on flawed input data. So I'll continue to withhold any conclusions until I see an EWP successfully flying.
Mike Wills
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