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Mark S. - 200 hrs Ed A. - 590 hrs
Tracy C. - 1850 (RV-4) + 56 (RV-8) 1906 hrs total
David L. - Bobby H. - Dennis H. - John S. - 120 hrs others...
TOTAL HRS - 2,816
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Tracy <rwstracy@gmail.com> wrote:
Mark S. - 200 hrs Ed A. - 590 hrs
Tracy C. - 1850 (RV-4) + 56 (RV-8) 1906 hrs total
David L. - Bobby H. -
Dennis H. - others...
So, how many hours do you have on your rotary now? Tracy, what's your total rotary flight hours? Just yesterday, someone was trying to label me as the "Rotary Guru" because I have almost 200 hours now. I quickly informed them that there are many others that are way ahead of me. Its been a while since we last tallied the total flight hours. So, if everyone flying wants to reply, I'll tally up the new total.
Mark S. - 200 hrs Ed A. - Tracy C. -
David L. - Bobby H. - Dennis H. - others...
You know, Mark, there are some things you just can't give
away - because nobody else wants them for some strange
reason {:>)
Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2011 9:17 AM Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Back to Phase 1 testing
Ed,
There's little chance of anyone else catching up to you anyway.
You're the HCH champ!
Mark
Ok, Mark, but that detracts 2 points from your
"Hairy Chested Hero" credit {:>)
Ed
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 7:20 PM Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Back to Phase 1 testing
Gee, two rotors to come home on doesn't provide much
excitement,
Ed,
That's the whole point of going with a
3-rotor, that and MORE POWER!!! BWAAAAAHHHHH
Mark
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Ed Anderson <eanderson@carolina.rr.com> wrote:
Gee, two rotors to come home on doesn't provide much
excitement, Tracy.
Sort of reminds me way back in the old days of
using the Rx-7 ignition coils and ballast resistors blowing on them.
For some reason seems like that only happened to you and me.
We
are all awaiting some performance numbers for that RV8-3R, so next time take
your bottle and give those Ls1 coils a real try
out.
Ed
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From:
"Tracy" <rwstracy@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 2:13
PM
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: [FlyRotary]
Re: Back to Phase 1 testing
Was finally getting around to doing hot weather cooling
and altitude performance testing in the RV-8 yesterday. Cooling was
good during a high power climb to 14500 ft where I leveled out ( I had
forgotten to put the Ox bottle in the plane). Throttled up to WOT
to see where the speed topped out at but. After less than a minute
I felt some engine roughness and noticed rotor 3 EGT went above alarm
threshold so I throttled back to low power. #3 EGT then went low
off scale and I could tell that the engine was only running on 2 rotors.
I then smelled a faint electrical burning smell that lasted about 2
minutes. Engine was surprisingly smooth for having a dead rotor and
still had more than enough power for cruise flight but obviously it was
time to get back on the ground and find out what went wrong. did
all the usual diagnostics on the long glide down with no joy.
Made
normal landing, poped off the cowl and coil diagnostics test revealed that
both coils on rotor 3 were dead. I had done the coil disable tests
prior to takeoff so I know they were both good then. I'm using RX-8
coils and there have been too many failures for me to feel good about them
any longer. I ordered a set of LS-1s to replace
them.
Tracy
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