Received-SPF: softfail
 receiver=logan.com; client-ip=64.102.122.149; envelope-from=echristley@nc.rr.com
Message-ID: <4471EC49.5070806@nc.rr.com>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 12:52:25 -0400
From: Ernest Christley <echristley@nc.rr.com>
Reply-To: echristley@nc.rr.com
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.4.1 (X11/20050929)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Rationalization was  [FlyRotary] Re: Questions
 from a potential rotaryphile
References: <list-1123359@logan.com>
In-Reply-To: <list-1123359@logan.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Ed Anderson wrote:

> Ok, Al.  I did misread it.  No question that the rotary's did burn 
> more fuel than the Lycomings, I had interpreted that as burning more 
> fuel/making more power as they flew faster than the lycoming powered 
> aircraft during that one phase of the comparison.
>  
> I didn't zero in on the part of the article indicating  that they were 
> all going the same airspeed when the fuel burn comparison was made. 
>  
>  But, it still was not as informative as it could have been, in that 
> these were unusual "P" port engines - not the normal side ports  that 
> 90% of us are flying.  If both rotary engines had been the normal side 
> port, I think the comparison would have been more interesting (and 
> perhaps more likely to have been closer in both the power and fuel burn).
>  
>
I think they used the Powersport equipted airplanes in the article 
because it is a commercial product.  Lord knows, we don't want to give 
all them
homebuilders out there the idea that they can just put their own engine 
together.  Who knows what sort of chicanery that will lead to?  Sport 
Aviation always seems to swallow with distaste the idea that 
homebuilders are building stuff at home, and not just assembling 
commercially available products.

It's OK, though.  I know this guy who is a long time rotary advocate 
who, for various reasons, is building a Lycoming equipped RV.  I'd bet 
that we'd be able to convince him and maybe a couple of other rotary 
folks with Lycoming equipt airplanes on hand to write an article from a 
different perspective.  Not so much to disprove the previous article, 
but more to expand upon it and provide a few more data points.

-- 
         ,|"|"|,               Ernest Christley     |
----===<{{(oQo)}}>===----     Dyke Delta Builder    |
        o|  d  |o          www.ernest.isa-geek.org  |