Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #26367
From: Denny <dennymortensen@cableone.net>
Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Re: Another great flying day = another day of troubleshooting
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 03:15:49 -0500
To: 'Rotary motors in aircraft' <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
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This is very interesting and makes sense since in a TV picture tube electrons are forced to jump a gap in a vacuum of a foot or more.
Denny
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From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Finn Lassen
Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 9:02 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Another great flying day = another day of troubleshooting

Hmm... and here I thought that vacumn was a better insulator than air ...
Why is the air pumped out of lightbulbs?

Finn

rijakits wrote:
Not exactly the same, but running the direstion:
During WW II the first fighters didn't run pressurized ignition harnesses.
Tales from Gruman state that a couple of test pilots encountered a sudden "Ignition failure" once they reached around 36 K feet.
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