Return-Path: Received: from [65.54.169.104] (HELO hotmail.com) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2b2) with ESMTP id 3181733 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 21:41:58 -0400 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:41:58 -0700 Received: from 4.174.2.28 by bay3-dav74.adinternal.hotmail.com with DAV; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 01:41:58 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [4.174.2.28] X-Originating-Email: [lors01@msn.com] X-Sender: lors01@msn.com From: "Tracy Crook" To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Wanted - single stage turbo Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 21:41:57 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0011.2700 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0002_01C42720.4DBEC080" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Apr 2004 01:41:58.0695 (UTC) FILETIME=[D5D30370:01C42741] ------=_NextPart_001_0002_01C42720.4DBEC080 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > My initial reaction is: Wow!, 50" Hg & 4500 rpm. You have way too muc= h prop on that thing! =20 Maybe, but I'm not at full power yet, and my GPS says I was doing 188.3kt= s. Keep an eye in you're mirror during the next race :) > What is it? =20 I'm not sure about the rpm. My tiny tach is hard to read and seems incons= istant. I need a better tach. The prop is a 66 inch 84 pitch 3 blade with a blade area of 312 from Perf= ormance. Clark said he can cut it back, but not increase it, so we agreed= to make it for about 280HP. =20 John My GPS said 243 mph (211 kts) on one leg of the race. Was your reading o= n the down wind leg too? : ) Tracy ------=_NextPart_001_0002_01C42720.4DBEC080 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
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> My i= nitial reaction is:  Wow!,  50" Hg & 4500 rpm. You hav= e way too much prop on that thing!   
Maybe, but I'm not at full power = yet, and my GPS says I was doing 188.3kts. Keep an eye in you're mirror d= uring the next race :)
 
> What is i= t? 
 
= I'm not sure about = the rpm. My tiny tach is hard to read and seems inconsistant. I need a be= tter tach.
The = prop is a 66 inch 84 pitch 3 blade with a blade area of 312 from Per= formance. Clark said he can cut it back, but not increase it, so we agree= d to make it for about 280HP.
John
 
 
My GPS said= 243 mph (211 kts) on one leg of the race.  Was your reading on the = down wind leg too?  : )
 
Tra= cy
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