Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #11432
From: Bill Dube <bdube@al.noaa.gov>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Limp home mode
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:38:29 -0600
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
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.


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