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Ed,
Sounds like a do-able mod. Won't get any experimenting done this week though, as I am off to Mojave to watch the ultimate experimenter, Mr. Rutan, create an astronaut. You can check it out at www.scaled.com
Bill Eslick
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Date: 06/19/04 19:36:17
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Static port location
You might get half of a pea (not kidding - they did this on the Spitfire in WWII) and try pasting approx 1/8" (final distance may vary) behind your fuselage static port. This could reduce some of the "suction" that is causing your altimeter to read high by building up positive pressure in from of the pea and increasing the pressure at the port. Actually, the Brits stuck 1/2 peas on the Spitfire in an attempt to find out where flush rivets may a difference or not - so I read.
Any half hemisphere, small object work probably do if you are fresh out of dried peas
Ed Anderson
RV-6A N494BW Rotary Powered
Matthews, NC
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Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 7:36 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Static port location
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Ed,
I'd be real happy with that error. Today I made a static probe and mounted it under the wing like the pitot probe. It has 8 holes, 1/16" diameter. They are in pairs about 1/4" apart, and each pair is 90 degrees off the last pair. (Confused yet?) It is a removable probe so that I can try different versions until I find the best. This one is blunt-nosed (courtesy of J-B Kwik).
This version reduced the altimeter error to 50-70 ft high and the indicated to around 7 KTs too high.
Not sure what to try for the next version.
Bill Eslick
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Date: 06/19/04 15:33:42
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Static port location
Just for the record, when I did my GPS triangulation Airspeed check, my indicated airspeed was 3 MPH high at around 190mph and within one MPH at 120 MPH. I never checked out the stall speed, but it seems within 2-3 MPH.
Ed
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