Hi Ed, I can understand your disappointment on the lack
of flying rotaries at SNF. Apathy or lack of participation is very common in
most clubs; usually there are a handful of people who “drive the bus” while the
rest enjoy the ride. If I lived about 600 miles closer, was retired and had
about 100 hours on my rotary installation there may have been some fresh BS
around the camp ground … keep driving the bus Ed, maybe in a year or two …
Jeff
From: Rotary motors in aircraft
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On Behalf Of Ed Anderson
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 9:57
PM
To: Rotary
motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Sun & Fun
2009
Great
weather at Sun & Fun after running a gauntlet of two squall lines across Northern Florida on Monday on the way down.
Attendance seemed to be down a bit, but saw a number of old friends and made
some new ones.
First
morning, I thought Tracy and I would be the only rotary powered aircraft on
“Auto Row”, but Bill Eslick and his wife Linda showed up and the Chuck
Dunlop flew his yellow bird in from Arizona.
So we ended up with 4 rotary powered birds and one Subaru installation that started
out as one of Eggenfellers FWF units and got extensively modified
including the owner (Larry) own gear box design. He also removed the two
GM cores that were up front (similar to mine but that had no ducting on the
Eggenfeller installation) and placed a huge radiator back of the engine.
Apparently it was working OK.
I think
there were a couple of Corvair engines in some Kr2 aircraft, but that was about
it.
The Cozy
Girrls were there with their products tailored for the canard birds and an very
nice aluminum bezel (goes better with glass cockpit styles than my “steam
gauge” format) which remotes the display and control buttons of my EFISM
unit. Ed Klepeis was there with his fine looking radiators and
other components. Ed’s been suggesting I should exchange my old GM cores
for some of his fine radiators, but I keep resisting as long as the cores keep
doing the job. So I kept a close eye on Ed to make sure he didn’t
approach my aircraft with an ice pick {:>}.
As some
of you know, I got dragged over to the “dark side” and got talked into
designing a monitor for the Emag/Pmag electronic ignition system. Got to
demonstrate it to the Emag guys and they were favorably impressed, so it looks
like right now me and my partner will be the first ones to have a unit on the
street. But, I’m sure the EFISM big guys won’t be far behind.
I guess
the only thing a bit disappointing is that after 10 years, we still don’t have
more of the flying rotary’s show up. But, certainly trying to make it
here from California
and other distant places given the distance and weather can be problematic.
Its not
that I’m getting tired of seeing the same faces, but would be nice to see a
“second generation” of 3 or 4 installations sitting along side us old guys with
our old mounts.
In any
case, the bull sessions were great and we had our own little camping area were
most of us were able to camp out.
Hope to
see more of you there next year.
Ed
Ed
Anderson
Rv-6A
N494BW Rotary Powered
Matthews,
NC
eanderson@carolina.rr.com
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