Sorry to hear about the incident, John. The important thing is
you are OK - the aircraft can be repaired. Sounds like your engine was
performing very nicely to get 190 indicated.
You might want to consider one of Real World Solutions PSRUs -
I've been very happy with mine.
Ed Anderson
From: Rotary motors in
aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of John
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 9:24 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Flight Test
Here
is some test data on my 13B Tailwind. Marcotte Redrive, ration 25 x 51.
engine
rpm 5600 max prop is Fred Felix 67 x 70,
bi-cambered
engine
rpm 5800 At .7 hr into flight the
engine was picking up rpm so I throttled back 100 rpm's and tuned the A/F
water
temp 185 mixture and the engine
picked rpm to 5800 rpm again. The engine must be breaking in and it was
oil
tem
170 running real nice, VVI was
indicating climb of 200 feet per minute. At this point the Marcotte
Redrive
fuel
press
42 started to vibrate so I throttled
back to 2000rpm on the engine, by this time I could smell 80w and
ex
temp 1600
smoke. I did a 360 turn and I'm flying in the only cloud for 100
miles. It doesn't give you a fuzzy
warm feeling going 190 mph and having a fire at 4000 feet AGL. My
landing was less than stellar
MAP
27 so will have to repair the plane
next winter. I should have been reading between the lines in the
OAT 60
Contact Magazine and replaced the redrive before flight, when it failed the
front seal fell out and the
air
speed indicated 190 80W
followed.
Thanks
to all you folks for you assistance in getting the engine running real
nice. To bad the redrive was garbage.
JohnD....I
was really happy I didn't get injured