X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from mail.viclink.com ([206.212.237.11] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.6) with ESMTP id 929777 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:49:54 -0500 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=206.212.237.11; envelope-from=pjmick@mail.viclink.com Received: from [192.168.1.44] (pool-71-111-169-188.ptldor.dsl-w.verizon.net [71.111.169.188]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.viclink.com (8.13.2/8.13.2) with ESMTP id k0HEn7Z8099836 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 06:49:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <43CD0432.8000501@mail.viclink.com> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 06:50:26 -0800 From: Perry Mick User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: flyrotary@lancaironline.net Subject: ducted fan Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------090802020703090600070505" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------090802020703090600070505 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I could design and build something for your one-rotor but it wouldn't be cheap! (because of the time involved). Hi Perry, Just hold that thought for now. The other thing is that there's no reason to believe it would solve the torque reversal issue, so I'd better find out more about that before I start looking into the next option. BTW, we don't hear much from you. Is the non-ducted fan version still working out well? Thanks, Rusty I'm just flying and lurking. If there is something on the list that interests me I will respond. I aquired about 500 hours on the ducted fan and something over 50 on the PSRU now. Everything is great, no glider time. I flew from Oregon to Kansas and back last July, a wonderful and uneventful trip, except I learned once again I can't burn 100LL and the TCP fuel additive does not work. http://www.bridgingworlds.com/k61/k61_photos.htm Yes, the torque reversal would still be an issue, and I expect you will need some amount of flywheel. I had the stock heavy manual transmission flywheel on my ducted fan. I intended to replace it with a lighter weight racing aluminum flywheel, but was concerned about the strength of it and never got that far. Perry --------------090802020703090600070505 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

I could design and build something for your one-rotor but it wouldn't be
cheap! (because of the time involved).

Hi Perry,

Just hold that thought for now. The other thing is that there's no reason to believe it would solve the torque reversal issue, so I'd better find out more about that before I start looking into the next option.

BTW, we don't hear much from you. Is the non-ducted fan version still working out well?

Thanks,

Rusty

I'm just flying and lurking. If there is something on the list that interests me I will respond.
I aquired about 500 hours on the ducted fan and something over 50 on the PSRU now. Everything is great, no glider time.
I flew from Oregon to Kansas and back last July, a wonderful and uneventful trip, except I learned once again I can't burn 100LL and the TCP fuel additive does not work.
http://www.bridgingworlds.com/k61/k61_photos.htm

Yes, the torque reversal would still be an issue, and I expect you will need some amount of flywheel. I had the stock heavy manual transmission flywheel on my ducted fan. I intended to replace it with a lighter weight racing aluminum flywheel, but was concerned about the strength of it and never got that far.

Perry

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