Return-Path: Received: from fed1mtao06.cox.net ([68.6.19.125] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.3) with ESMTP id 2586209 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 19:56:03 -0400 Received: from Leonards ([68.111.228.182]) by fed1mtao06.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20030919235559.BIJA14069.fed1mtao06.cox.net@Leonards> for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 19:55:59 -0400 From: "David Leonard" To: "'Rotary motors in aircraft'" Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Re: Not sure how many horses really came back Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 16:56:02 -0700 Message-ID: <000801c37f09$94deabc0$b6e46f44@Leonards> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0009_01C37ECE.E87FD3C0" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0009_01C37ECE.E87FD3C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Of course if you're turbo system blows the engine, you won't run it that way again, so you'll be re-doing the intake, exhaust AND rebuilding an engine :-) I can pretty much say that the rotary has a one engine chance of success. If it blows, I'll be shopping for a Lycoming. That's hardly fair. I have a friend who built a lancair IVP and had the engine blow up first flight.. he didn't go shopping for a 20B. Another friend just finished his RV-8 and sucked in a bolt at 100hrs. He didn't go shopping for a rotary either. :-) Trade in the turbo if you must, but you know that a na 13b will make plenty of power for an RV-3 and you have already done the hard part. It would take more work to convert back at this point. David Leonard The Rotary Roster: http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/rotaryroster/index.html ------=_NextPart_000_0009_01C37ECE.E87FD3C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message

 

Of course if you're turbo system = blows the engine, you won't run it that way again, so you'll be re-doing the intake, exhaust AND rebuilding an engine :-)   I can = pretty much say that the rotary has a one engine chance of success.  If = it blows, I'll be shopping for a Lycoming.

 

That’s hardly fair.  I = have a friend who built a lancair IVP and had the engine blow up first = flight..  he didn’t go shopping for a 20B.  Another friend just finished = his RV-8 and sucked in a bolt at 100hrs.  He didn’t go shopping for a = rotary either.  J  Trade in the turbo if you must, but you know that a = na 13b will make plenty of power for an RV-3 and you have already done the hard part.  It would take more work to convert back at this = point.

 

David Leonard

The Rotary = Roster:

http://memb= ers.aol.com/_ht_a/rotaryroster/index.html

 

------=_NextPart_000_0009_01C37ECE.E87FD3C0--