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Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 07:31:04 -0500
From: Charlie England <ceengland@bellsouth.net>
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To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Into the Blue
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DaveLeonard wrote:

>N4VY slipped the surly bonds of earth today for the first time!  RV-6 QB
>#60033  with a turbo 13B Rotary engine.
>
>The flight was as spectacular and uneventful as I could have hoped.
>Initial climb out at 31" yielded about 1500 fpm.  (solo half fuel).  at 500
>feet I throttled back to 29", the 25" and maintained a steady climb all the
>way up to 4500'.  And that's where I stayed for the next hour, doing laps
>over the field.  Coolant topped at 80C (176F) during the climb then leveled
>at 90C(194F) for most of the flight.  It never went above 90C (the RMI
>monitor only gives coolant in 10 deg C increments, so the next would be 100C
>or 212F).  Oil topped out at 70C (158F) briefly during some slow flight but
>mostly stayed at about 66C (180F).  OAT was 27C (80F) throughout the flight.
>I didn't see the same cooling on descent that Steve Brooks had seen.  I was
>still 80C on touchdown (all three of them ;-) 
>
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Will the RMI display 10 degree increments in F mode as well? At the risk 
of stating the obvious,  you could improve your resolution a bit by 
switching to F mode.  It also makes it easier on the rest of us (the 
barbarians).

Charlie