From: "Russell Duffy" <13brv3@bellsouth.net>
Date: 2004/10/31 Sun PM 07:09:24 EST
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: [FlyRotary] Phase one complete, official climb results
 disappointing

Greetings,
 
Posted below are the details of today's final phase one flight.  I'm truly
at a loss to explain how I saw 3000 fpm yesterday, because I sure couldn't
do it today.  I know I've seen 2500+ on a couple of occasions before, but
not today.  Sorry to get everyone (particularly myself) overly excited about
the climb rate.  I'm still not sure how I'm getting 500 fpm less than Tracy,
while running the same prop, and rpm.  Oh well, the testing will never
really end, which is what keeps it all interesting.   Cheers,
Rusty (grilling steak, and drinking beer now)