Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #35842
From: Ed Anderson <eanderson@carolina.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Pinched ducts was : [FlyRotary] Re: cowl openings for water radiators
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 09:48:37 -0500
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Ah, if I just had the time for all the things I would like to do, Thomas.  Bill Schertz has been after me to instrument my  ducts with pressure sensors for years.  There is no doubt data could possibly help - but even then you have to be careful.  Testing a theory on a poorly implemented test set-up could just as easily lead to a false wrong conclusion or ... humm, wonder what that means?.
 
Early on in my life (first year in college physics lab) I realized that I was not cut out to be a scientist - repeating the same experiment over and over and writing down page after page of numbers (data) just did not ring my chimes.  At that point, it became clear I was more suited to engineering - yes, data and testing is also required there - but its more focused on refining a design than proving a theory.  At least that is my perspective.
 
I know some folks would rather gather data and analyze it than build - but, just not my cup of tea {:>)
 
ED
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 9:09 AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Pinched ducts was : [FlyRotary] Re: cowl openings for water radiators

Thanx Ed!
 
Now for your next experiment:
 
Buy a couple of lipstick cameras, drill some holes into your ducts, but some strings in there and go fly! :)))
Let's see what the airflow does:))
 
TJ
 
 
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