Paul,

I don't think that the RV guys have the same
appreciation for fiberglass as the canard gang.  I
hated working with fiberglass at first, but after
building the Cozy, it really isn't too bad (now that
its done especially).  I don't think that there is
much that I couldn't build out of fiberglass.

Also, I saw the photo of you scoop yesterday morning,
before I left for south Carolina.  I have a question
about the location.  When I added scoops to my Cozy, I
added armpit scoops to the underside of the lower
cowling, which according to the pressure charts I had,
was a high pressure area.  I had considered putting
them where yours is, or even one centered at the top
of the cowling, but it looked to me like that was a
low pressure area.

Maybe you SQ is a little different, but I'd expect
that it was very similar to the Cozy.  Since I am
going to redo my 1.4 version cowling someday, I'm
interested to see the results that you get with you
scoop arrangement

Steve Brooks (waiting for the ceiling to lift to go
flying)
Cozy MKIV N75CZ
Turbo Rotary


--- Paul <sqpilot@bellsouth.net> wrote:

Probably seems fast, but when your fingers are
sticky, your skin itches and
you're sanding foam and mixing resin, it SEEMS slow.
 Of course, if I were
to consider the alternative, like building a
compound curve like that out of
aluminum....Yep....fast.  I found that using a hot
glue gun to adhere the
foam in place helped to move things along, as
opposed to using slow curing
epoxy to stick the foam to the cowling. You can
start sanding the foam 10
minutes after sticking it onto the cowling, then cut
your fiberglass to
size, mix the resin and brush it on. I don't hate
fiberglass as much as
Rusty does.  Paul Conner

----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark R Steitle"
<mark.steitle@austin.utexas.edu>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft"
<flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 8:33 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: New cooling scoop



ONLY 3 hours... wow, you're fast!

Mark S.
 I spent 3 hours carving foam and fiberglassing this
scoop, ...  Paul Conner

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