Return-Path: Received: from mail.theofficenet.com ([65.166.240.5] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2b6) with SMTP id 225427 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Thu, 24 Jun 2004 19:44:46 -0400 Received: (qmail 22124 invoked from network); 24 Jun 2004 23:36:53 -0000 Received: from ppp-che-107.theofficenet.com (HELO jack) (65.166.241.107) by mail.theofficenet.com with SMTP; 24 Jun 2004 23:36:53 -0000 Message-ID: <001101c45a45$24459640$6bf1a641@jack> From: "Jack Ford" To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" References: Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Fly cooling was Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Everybody ok? Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 16:44:06 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Besides, in case it's not obvious, the system has too many bugs in it. Jack Ford ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Anderson" To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 11:37 AM Subject: [FlyRotary] Fly cooling was Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Everybody ok? > > Ed Anderson > RV-6A N494BW Rotary Powered > Matthews, NC > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" > Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 1:38 PM > Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Everybody ok? > > > > > > > > > > > Interesting trim actuator... how do you wire it in? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Ernest Christley wrote: > > > > > > I've been trying to actually get some airplane > > parts built. Did > > > somepainting this week. Here's the result. > > > > > > > > > > > > I guess the plan was to have an intelligent trim > > actuator. It was supposed to flap real hard as it > > got close to the ground. No wires or switches to > > worry about. > > > > Looks like I'll have to do some redesign, 'cause it > > appears that the paint will kill the fl^H^Hactuator. > > > > Just had another flash of brilliance...Ed, do you > > have any equations that would compute the cooling > > ability of a streamlined duct ehnanced with flies!?! > > > > > Well, lets see.... yep, just found a formula for that design approach. > > It looks like that the enhance cooling would be proportional to the linear > increase in the number of flies you could harness to fly in close formation > just behind the cooler core. It should produce approx. 300% increase in > cooling effectiveness for the typical evaporator core. Unfortunately, the > calculation also shows that the fly mass will go up to the cube of the > number of flies used which means the gross weight of the cooling system > would increase by approx. 2700% for the typical experimental. Oh, here is a > foot note. "...fly excrement covering the canopy proved to be a design > challenge not yet overcome.." > > Well, looks like you could do it - but you wouldn't like the results {:>) > > Ed > > > > >> Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ > >> Archive: http://lancaironline.net/lists/flyrotary/List.html >