X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from mx2.netapp.com ([216.240.18.37] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.3.2) with ESMTPS id 4121094 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:38:48 -0500 Received-SPF: softfail receiver=logan.com; client-ip=216.240.18.37; envelope-from=echristley@nc.rr.com X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.49,453,1262592000"; d="scan'208";a="314931481" Received: from smtp1.corp.netapp.com ([10.57.156.124]) by mx2-out.netapp.com with ESMTP; 11 Feb 2010 08:38:09 -0800 Received: from [10.62.16.80] ([10.62.16.80]) by smtp1.corp.netapp.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/NTAP-1.6) with ESMTP id o1BGc9XI004712 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:38:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B74326F.9010007@nc.rr.com> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:38:07 -0500 From: Ernest Christley Reply-To: echristley@nc.rr.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Blower fun References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lynn Hanover wrote: > > The fan (impeller) of the VW style has a covered face, so it does not > need a shroud at all just a collector ring. It is also not required > that a path or inlet gallery be used, so long as an open flow path is > available. I looked around for something like that early on. I was hoping that I could get something off the shelf to shorten the development cycle. Something with a covered face would have made so many things so much easier. I'll know where to start looking if what I have turns out to be advantageous.