Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #14963
From: Dale Rogers <dale.r@cox.net>
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: oil/water Exchanger
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 17:21:32 -0500
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>


  Rusty wrote:
 
Good points of course, but I still can't help but be drawn to the simplicity
of having only one scoop, one duct, and one radiator.  

  Alas, things are rarely as simple as we think they are.
You still have two "radiators" (a radiator is just a water-
to-air heat exchanger); you still have the plumbing to get the oil to and from the exchanger; and you also have the weight of a heat exchange system (oil-water) that is less efficient than oil-to-air.    John Slade has one scoop, one duct - so the simplicity is achievable with separate exchangers.

Regards,
Dale R.
COZY MkIV #1254


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