Real cute about the Tomorrow, I just spoke.....

 

My daddy was in the Navy and had KP one day, a Wednesday.  The next morning they dug him out of his hammock again and told him that since it was Wednesday again, he had KP again.

 

Another time a friend of ours spent Thanksgiving in the Philippines and then flew over here and Thanksgiving again.

 

Ralph ( I need a cheap plane for a 532 air mile commute to work once a month. Anything for sale?)

 

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

From: John Slade

To: Rotary motors in aircraft

Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 7:18 PM

Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Second stock turbo bites the dust

 > I think you may find that your prop is so overpitched that you "need" the turbo to get any decent rpm.   

Yea. I was thinking that might be a problem.  

 

>there's a sucker born every minute :-)

Or, in this case, a blower :)

 

>hereby challenge John to a climb contest at this year's roundup

OK. You're on. Target altitude - 25,000 ft. :)

A climb contest (less than 10,000 ft) you will always win. Lets try a speed contest instead.

(of course you'll have to fly over to a hard surface airport to find me)

 

 >I like that Idea too.  You will have to seal the oil passages. 

Duh! :)

 

Anyway - good news.  Tomorrow, I just spoke at length with Max at http://www.turbonetics.com.au/  He can get a turbo locally for about $150AU and rebuild it per the specs on his web site for around $600AU. That's less than the turbo rebuilder guy up the street wanted to just do a straight rebuild.

 

I told him to go ahead. I should have my new turbo in 2-3 weeks.

John