X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 12:15:04 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [209.218.83.94] (HELO haaga.com) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.6) with ESMTP id 917436 for lml@lancaironline.net; Sun, 08 Jan 2006 09:04:50 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=209.218.83.94; envelope-from=clkeller@utahweb.com Received: from utahweb.com [67.106.48.43] by haaga.com with ESMTP (SMTPD-8.21) id AC38113C; Sun, 08 Jan 2006 07:05:44 -0700 X-Original-Message-ID: <43C11BA9.3090607@utahweb.com> X-Original-Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 07:03:21 -0700 From: Charles Keller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Original-To: Lancair Mail List Subject: Re: Idle power descent? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Declude-Sender: clkeller@utahweb.com [67.106.48.43] X-Spam-Tests-Failed: Whitelisted [0] Rick Lafford wrote >> As for not allowing the prop to drive the engine, I remember reading that the geared radials didn't like it one bit but the problems created were gearbox related.<< Before John Deacon quit writing his "Pelican's Perch" articles for Avweb (Avweb's never been the same since) one of his articles was on this subject. He said the source of this OWT was indeed the big radials, but in the crankshaft lubrication rather than the gearing.. I found it very interesting reading. www.avweb.com/news/columns/186778-1.html Charles --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Utahweb]