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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:38:29 -0600
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
From: Bill Dube <bdube@al.noaa.gov>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Limp home mode
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At 12:16 PM 9/14/2004 -0400, you wrote:
> >In looking at the rotary housings it seems that the water jacket in the
> >engine is simple and straight forward.
>
>I wonder if each rotor could be plumbed separately with its own EWP and evap
>core radiator.

         I would think that a cooling failure on one rotor would cause the 
whole engine to fail after a short time. I don't think you could continue 
to run it for a long time.

         Keep in mind that if you put two cooling systems in, you are twice 
as likely to have one of them fail. If a single cooling system failure 
brings down the power plant, you end up reducing the reliability rather 
than increasing it.