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Greg,
A lot of interesting research into plant derived
oils, one such poisonous plant has seeds which produce copious oil, not
dissimilar to diesel. The advantages are obvious but BTU content is
unknown.
George (down under).
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 7:27
AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Heavy
Fuel?
Probably not a bad idea to consider McDonald's fry
grease as an alternative though. They're (guess who?) already trying to
stop all drilling and refining in this hemisphere.
Greg Ward
Lancair 20B in progress
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 12:44
PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Heavy
Fuel?
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 :(
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