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>Snuck out of Florida and headed North without any of us knowing it - cool move
Yep.
> just before official opening of Hurricane season {:>). That's a bonus. The main reason was to avoid having to install the promised AC system before summer. :)
>Give us a dump of how the trip went.
OK. A quick one. Got away late in the afternoon and made it to Florence, SC as it was getting dark. My wife (Char) was following in the "chase truck" with 2 dogs, 2 cats and a fish. Checked into the Holiday inn. After driving through the night, Char rolled in just as I was getting breakfast, borrowed the shower then set off Northward again. I flew on to SFQ to refuel and ended up spending time with Wayne Hicks and LongEZ builder Steve. Didn't get airborne again till 4pm. Big mistake. When I got to overhead JFK a fogbank had rolled in and covered the whole of Long Island. I couldn't get hold of flight watch, so I put her down in Old Bridge, NJ and waited for Char to catch up. Finally arrived in Connecticut (by truck) at 3:30am. I'll go back and retrieve the plane next week sometime, when the weather clears.
Most of the trip was done on 93 mogas. I added 15 gallons of 100LL at FLO and topped off with 87 mogas at SFQ. The engine ran purrfectly the entire way.
Snuck out of Florida and headed North without any of us knowing it - cool move, just before official opening of Hurricane season {:>). Give us a dump of how the trip went.
Ed
----- Original Message -----
*From:* John Slade <mailto:sladerj@bellsouth.net>
*To:* Rotary motors in aircraft <mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
*Sent:* Saturday, June 03, 2006 8:41 PM
*Subject:* [FlyRotary] Re: Another case of heat-soaked coils?
>Hope the guy that brought this to mind (John Slade) heard it. I
still don't know what kind of junction >(connector, butt splices,
bullet connectors, etc) that he used but none of them should be
encapsulated in RTV >for the reason given. That pungent smell you
get when dispensing RTV is acetic acid. Yep. Heard it loud and clear.
The RTV was added in an attempt to waterproof the connector. I was
concerned that the open holes were vertical, just below the water
pump and might get filled with coolant in the event of a leak.
Perhaps a rubber boot would be a better solution.
John
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