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From: "Ed Anderson" <eanderson@carolina.rr.com>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
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Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] per Ed's request
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 18:09:34 -0400
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Thanks, Ernest

Looks like you have made considerable progress since the last photos I saw. 
I can not tell for certain, but does the wheel well fiberglass work contain 
the duct you mentioned?

Ed

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ernest Christley" <echristley@nc.rr.com>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 5:42 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] per Ed's request


> Ed told me at the Mid-Atlantic flyin that I wasn't sending enough
> pictures to the group.  So as not to be reticent in my duties 8*), this
> is what I've been up to.  The belly is covered in fabric, and the
> fiberglass front "breastplate" will support the landing lights and the
> intakes for the oil and half the water cooling.  The top of the wheel
> wells will be the bottom section of the exit duct.
>
> I've got a long weekend to finish the breastplate and get the fuselage
> turned back over.  The middle section of the cooling duct will be
> constructed of fabric stretched over support members.  That should go
> quickly (glue fabric, stretch, shrink with iron to 300 degree, add just
> one coat of PolyBrush for seal and fire retardant).  Then I'll make a
> fiberglass mating section to smoothly join  the rear of the oil cooler
> to the front of the fabric portion of the duct.  Then there will be
> another fiberglass section to take the air from the rear of the fabric
> section and dump it as smoothly as possible back into the freestream
> through a set of gills.
>
> -- 
>          ,|"|"|,               Ernest Christley     |
> ----===<{{(oQo)}}>===----     Dyke Delta Builder    |
>         o|  d  |o          www.ernest.isa-geek.org  |
>
>
>


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