Return-Path: Received: from mail.viclink.com ([66.129.220.6] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1b9) with ESMTP id 2473834 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 21:09:17 -0400 Received: from viclink.com (p045.AS1.viclink.com [66.129.192.45]) by mail.viclink.com (8.11.7/8.11.7) with ESMTP id h6E19Ft31862 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 18:09:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3F1202B7.6050201@viclink.com> Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 18:09:11 -0700 From: Perry Mick User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: flyrotary@lancaironline.net Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Engine Failure Report from Chuck Dunlap Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------070403080006050905080806" X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.3(snapshot 20030217) (mail.viclink.com) --------------070403080006050905080806 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit John Slade wrote: >>First inflight engine failure of a >>rotary engine I am aware of. Sounds like apex seal went or foreign object >>was injested. >> >> > >I thought the engine was supposed to run on one rotor. Rought, but enough to >keep you airborne was what I'd read somewhere. >John Slade > > > > I am trying to get more information from Chuck on that. It could be that with all the things he tried it somehow quit and then would not restart. That is the experience I had in a turbo car when an apex seal went out. I was able to keep the engine running by keeping my foot on gas, and it got me home 30 miles away, partially through city traffic. I had to do a lot of clutching and braking with the left foot so I could keep my right foot on the gas to keep the engine running. Once I got home and turned the engine off, it engine would not re-start. -- Perry Mick Custom Composite Props mick@bridgingworlds.com http://www.ductedfan.com --------------070403080006050905080806 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

John Slade wrote:

First inflight engine failure of a
rotary engine I am aware of.  Sounds like apex seal went or foreign object
was injested.


I thought the engine was supposed to run on one rotor. Rought, but enough to
keep you airborne was what I'd read somewhere.
John Slade

I am trying to get more information from Chuck on that. It could be that with all the things he tried it somehow quit and then would not restart.

That is the experience I had in a turbo car when an apex seal went out. I was able to keep the engine running by keeping my foot on gas, and it got me home 30 miles away, partially through city traffic. I had to do a lot of clutching and braking with the left foot so I could keep my right foot on the gas to keep the engine running. Once I got home and turned the engine off, it engine would not re-start.

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