|
You are not a downer Tracy! That is the way it
is.
Somebody mentioned recently, forgot where, that
Mistral stopped working on the heavy fuel engine.
Richard Sohn
N2071U
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 2:07
PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Heavy
Fuel?
I liked the Experimenter ezine but the article on heavy fuel
was a bit lame. Yes, you can (with some difficulty) make a spark ignited
heavy fuel engine but so what? What does it get you? The
efficiency is no better, and the power is less. The fuel is more
expensive.
The military is interested in this for the purpose of fuel
commonality only.
Tracy (sorry to be a
downer)
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Dale Rogers <dale.r@cox.net>
wrote:
Hi
all,
I just read a somewhat interesting article in the new
EAA
electronic magazine, < http://eaa.org/experimenter/issues/ >.
http://www.eaa.org/experimenter/articles/2009-01_engine.asp
IIRC,
the rotary has a bit of a reputation for being able to
run on darned near
anything that will burn (100 proof?).
With direct injection -
just after the intake ports are
obscured - a realistic possibility, I
wonder if the 13B
couldn't be a star platform for a heavy fuel
solution.
Hmm, I've got an extra engine, and if I can ever get
the
"fly" engine on the airplane ... nah, just another distraction
to
keep me from finishing the COZY. After that?
Dale R.
COZY
MkIV #0497
Ch. 12 complete. ~still~ on Ch. 13 :(
--
Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/
Archive and UnSub: http://mail.lancaironline.net:81/lists/flyrotary/List.html
No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG -
http://www.avg.com
Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.12/1911 -
Release Date: 1/23/2009 7:28 AM
|