Return-Path: Received: from [64.136.28.160] (HELO smtp01.lax.untd.com) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1) with SMTP id 2512790 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Tue, 05 Aug 2003 23:05:39 -0400 Received: (qmail 25286 invoked from network); 6 Aug 2003 03:05:37 -0000 Received: from dialup-67.31.207.235.dial1.tampa1.level3.net (HELO netzero.net) (67.31.207.235) by smtp01.lax.untd.com with SMTP; 6 Aug 2003 03:05:37 -0000 Message-ID: <3F307078.9070701@netzero.net> Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 23:05:28 -0400 From: Finn Lassen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (nscd2) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: tiny tach works, and my plane is a pig References: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------000105070506090305090402" --------------000105070506090305090402 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Russell Duffy wrote: > A friend with an O-320 RV-3 just told me his empty weight is 822 > lbs, and he publishes a gross weight of 1280, though he keeps > aerobatics below Van's recommended 1100 lb gross. Not so fast! Aerobatic limit was 1,050 lb gross! The redesign of the wings was to bring it up to original specs of +6 / -3 (or -6?) at 1,050 lb gross! Sure, I listed mine as 1,300 lb gross, but would never dream of pulling any kind of G's at that weight. In theory I should be able to pull 4.85 G's at 1,300 lbs, but I think there are other factors involved. On second thought, the weight of the fuel in the wings shouldn't count towards the areobatic weight. In any case, do check with Van. Finn --------------000105070506090305090402 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Russell Duffy wrote:

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A friend with an O-320 RV-3 just told me his empty weight is 822 lbs, and he publishes a gross weight of 1280, though he keeps aerobatics below Van's recommended 1100 lb gross.

Not so fast! Aerobatic limit was 1,050 lb gross!

The redesign of the wings was to bring it up to original specs of +6 / -3 (or -6?) at 1,050 lb gross!
Sure, I listed mine as 1,300 lb gross, but would never dream of pulling any kind of G's at that weight.
In theory I should be able to pull 4.85 G's at 1,300 lbs, but I think there are other factors involved.

On second thought, the weight of the fuel in the wings shouldn't count towards the areobatic weight.
In any case, do check with Van.

Finn
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