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From: "Russell Duffy" <13brv3@bellsouth.net>
To: "'Rotary motors in aircraft'" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Re: oil supply for Ross
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 21:37:25 -0600
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The way it looks to me, if the drive was designed to have forced oil
lubrication, you can't just add a reservoir. You'd have to also add an oil
pump, and maybe some other form of cooling.  I'd also have to suspect that
our fearless leader would have used a reservoir system for the RD-1 drives
if there was a significant overall advantage (including weight, complexity,
etc).  

Cheers,
Rusty (got home at 5:00 am after hauling my new Airbike project back from
Arkansas)