Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: lml Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 12:41:59 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from imo-m05.mx.aol.com ([64.12.136.8] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0b8) with ESMTP id 1740324 for lml@lancaironline.net; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 12:39:56 -0400 Received: from Epijk@aol.com by imo-m05.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v34.10.) id q.d8.1dc95ab7 (3996) for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 12:39:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Epijk@aol.com X-Original-Message-ID: X-Original-Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 12:39:16 EDT Subject: Re: [LML] ram air recovery X-Original-To: lml@lancaironline.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_d8.1dc95ab7.2abca934_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 10637 --part1_d8.1dc95ab7.2abca934_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/20/2002 8:20:21 AM Pacific Daylight Time, glcasey@adelphia.net writes: > Incidentally, has anyone used the cowl just in front of the windshield for > an air inlet? This would seem to be a good source of low velocity, high > pressure air. Gary: High-end race car builders have used that location as a souce of higher-than-ambient inlet air for many years. And yes, at high AOA, the benefit is somewhat reduced. BUT, at high AOA, your airspeed is usually much lower than in cruise (unless you're doing some fun-flying, apparently inadvisable in Lancair aircraft) which limits the available gain anyhow. Jack Kane --part1_d8.1dc95ab7.2abca934_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/20/2002 8:20:21 AM Pacific Daylight Time, glcasey@adelphia.net writes:


Incidentally, has anyone used the cowl just in front of the windshield for
an air inlet?  This would seem to be a good source of low velocity, high
pressure air. 


Gary:
High-end race car builders have used that location as a souce of higher-than-ambient inlet air for many years. And yes, at high AOA, the benefit is somewhat reduced. BUT, at high AOA, your airspeed is usually much lower than in cruise (unless you're doing some fun-flying, apparently inadvisable in Lancair aircraft) which limits the available gain anyhow.
Jack Kane --part1_d8.1dc95ab7.2abca934_boundary--