From: Rotary motors in aircraft
[mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On
Behalf Of Chris Barber
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2013
12:00 PM
To: Rotary
motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: : Good
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I had a hose become damaged and I overheated over the airport. While I
landed well, I had to rebuild the engine. While doing so I found major cracks
in my turbo exhaust manifold too. (Modified off the shelf stainless manifold)
I made things prettier when rebuilt by improving wire runs etc. An
engineer friend and I are examining the best route for the new turbo
manifold.
Until the new turbo manifold is developed I have gotten the rest
of the engine back together. It is ready for flight, sans turbo, except for a
currently undisguised charging problem on my secondary system.
I had planned to find the charging problem and refine any tuning tweaks
last week but was derailed when we lost a fellow officer in the line of duty on
Christmas Eve. He was the first officer we have ever lost. We are a department
of less than 30 patrol officers, so, yes, we all know each other well. The
funeral was Saturday following much overtime and preparation.
While my department will never be the same we are hoping to create some
"normal" as we move on and for me that will likely mean getting to
the hangar.
Chris,
We haven’t heard from you lately.
How is your plane flying?
Bill B