X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from web81002.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.199.82] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1c.2) with SMTP id 1235270 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:34:03 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=68.142.199.82; envelope-from=deltaflyer@prodigy.net Received: (qmail 89200 invoked by uid 60001); 13 Jul 2006 14:33:19 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=prodigy.net; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=3EqQcd0LeiIBL/K4/p9iQZh6UjLqXBgpNQgwJ+YbufUiLT96T6FWAco6DpHi8cEdA5axlMbmW4vol3HvewGZSbY8rNt/JsvYrWPY9fJ3wZIdF42zATjRLkjWhEWRQd8/l2xCZvoQYBld6Vx4vOHSqR9MXMTObzQ18NT5GMTs/xE= ; Message-ID: <20060713143319.89198.qmail@web81002.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [199.231.49.128] by web81002.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 07:33:19 PDT Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 07:33:19 -0700 (PDT) From: James Maher Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] N613BX 1st flight data To: Rotary motors in aircraft In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-1922175413-1152801199=:88561" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --0-1922175413-1152801199=:88561 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Steve, Congrats on the first flight. How was the datalogging accomplished? I would very much like to have the same capability on my aircraft. Thanks, Jim "Steven W. Boese" wrote: Thanks for the responses concerning my recent first flight. I'll try to answer the questions asked. The estimated takeoff distance was about 1400 ft with a density altitude of 8700 ft. The oil and coolant temperatures both reached nearly 200 degrees F at full throttle and then stabilized at close to 180 degrees in level flight at 100 to 120 Kt at an altitude of about 9500 ft. Of course, significantly less maximum power (and heat) was produced compared to those installations operated near sea level. Static engine RPM was 4600 . 5200 RPM was seen in flight before throttling back. Maximum speed was not attempted. An EXCEL spreadsheet is attached with data collected during the flight if it survives emailing and if anyone wants to look at it. I haven't tried to preserve the spreadsheet formatting in the body of an email. I will be away from home until July 20 and may not be able to respond to emails until then. Please don't take a lack of prompt response as an indication of lack of interest on my part. Steve Boese -- Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ Archive and UnSub: http://mail.lancaironline.net/lists/flyrotary/ --0-1922175413-1152801199=:88561 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Steve,
Congrats on the first flight.
How was the datalogging accomplished?
I would very much like to have the same capability on my aircraft.
Thanks,
Jim

"Steven W. Boese" <SBoese@uwyo.edu> wrote:
Thanks for the responses concerning my recent first flight.  I'll try to answer the questions asked.
 
The estimated takeoff distance was about 1400 ft with a density altitude of 8700 ft.
 
The oil and coolant temperatures both reached nearly 200 degrees F at full throttle and then stabilized at close to 180 degrees in level flight at 100 to 120 Kt at an altitude of about 9500 ft.  Of course, significantly less maximum power (and heat) was produced compared to those installations operated near sea level.
 
Static engine RPM was 4600 .  5200 RPM was seen in flight before throttling back.  Maximum speed was not attempted.
 
An EXCEL spreadsheet is attached with data collected during the flight if it survives emailing and if anyone wants to look at it.  I haven't tried to preserve the spreadsheet formatting in the body of an email.
 
I will be away from home until July 20 and may not be able to respond to emails until then.  Please don't take a lack of prompt response as an indication of lack of interest on my part.
 
Steve Boese
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