Return-Path: Received: from border.rfgonline.com ([65.171.123.242] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2b1) with ESMTP-TLS id 3139818 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Thu, 01 Apr 2004 00:48:02 -0500 Received: (qmail 25432 invoked from network); 1 Apr 2004 00:39:13 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO EXCHANGE.rfgonline.com) (192.168.150.101) by 192.168.150.1 with SMTP; 1 Apr 2004 00:39:13 -0500 Received: from rfgonline.com ([192.168.150.29]) by EXCHANGE.rfgonline.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Thu, 1 Apr 2004 00:48:02 -0500 Message-ID: <406BAD30.607@rfgonline.com> Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 00:48:32 -0500 From: Chad Robinson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040208) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Requesting more thoughts on cooling References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: crobinson@rfgonline.com X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Apr 2004 05:48:02.0153 (UTC) FILETIME=[E544ED90:01C417AC] Perry Mick wrote: > I'm not sure I can offer much help John. The ducted fan cools my > installation on the ground so I can run it indefinitely. I know if I take > the fanduct off, it will eventually overheat just idling on the ground. > > I think I saw on your website you have a cooling fan installed on your rad? > That should help. > > On my first flight the coolant temp was not a problem (never has been) but > oil temp went to 240. I stayed in the pattern (I was planning to go high and > feel things out) but I had to go around twice and didn't get it down until > the 3rd approach. > > Best advise I can offer is "fly the plane" (origin Burt Rutan: don't get > distracted by some anomaly and forget to fly the airplane). Perry, out of curiosity what's the current status of your duct work? Have you worked on "fan 4" yet? What airspeeds are you seeing? Reards, Chad