X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from vms040pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.40] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.8) with ESMTP id 1026388 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Tue, 07 Mar 2006 21:57:52 -0500 Received: from [63.24.56.145] ([63.24.117.200]) by vms040.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0IVS00KN3G84WLA3@vms040.mailsrvcs.net> for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:57:43 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 18:56:45 -0800 From: Ken Welter Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Belt Drives was Re: Heaters In-reply-to: To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="============_-1070335829==_ma============" References: --============_-1070335829==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" >On 7, Mar , at 9:14 AM, Ken Welter wrote: > >> Tell him to join the Coot group at yahoo if he has not already, >>I hope he is not another one that wants to stuff the engine in the >>hull and run belts up to the prop. >> Ken >> >>Hi Ken, >what about using a drive shaft running up to a car rear end with the >prop hanging on one end of the axle; maybe even two props for a >push/pull arrangement! (: ) BR, Dave McC No thanks, even if it didn't add any weight I wouldn't want the fire danger of the engine down in the fiberglass hull and then how would you get airflow around the engine to cool it and where would you put the coolers and where is the exhaust going to go and then what a maintenance nightmare working on the engine down in the hull. Ken --============_-1070335829==_ma============ Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" [FlyRotary] Re: Belt Drives was Re: Heaters

On 7, Mar , at 9:14 AM, Ken Welter wrote:

   Tell him to join the Coot group at yahoo if he has not already, I hope he is not another one that wants to stuff the engine in the hull and run belts up to the prop.
  Ken

Hi Ken,
what about using a drive shaft running up to a car rear end with the prop hanging on one end of the axle; maybe even two props for a push/pull arrangement! (: )  BR, Dave McC


   No thanks, even if it didn't add any weight I wouldn't want the fire danger of the engine down in the fiberglass hull and then how would you get airflow around the engine to cool it and where would you put the coolers and where is the exhaust going to go and then what a maintenance nightmare working on the engine down in the hull.
  Ken
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