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I had a hose become damaged and I overheated over the airport. While I landed well, I had to rebuild the engine. While doing so I found major cracks in my turbo exhaust manifold too. (Modified off the shelf stainless manifold)
I made things prettier when rebuilt by improving wire runs etc. An engineer friend and I are examining the best route for the new turbo manifold.
Until the new turbo manifold is developed I have gotten the rest of the engine back together. It is ready for flight, sans turbo, except for a currently undisguised charging problem on my secondary system.
I had planned to find the charging problem and refine any tuning tweaks last week but was derailed when we lost a fellow officer in the line of duty on Christmas Eve. He was the first officer we have ever lost. We are a department of less than 30 patrol
officers, so, yes, we all know each other well. The funeral was Saturday following much overtime and preparation.
While my department will never be the same we are hoping to create some "normal" as we move on and for me that will likely mean getting to the hangar.
Chris
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Chris,
We haven’t heard from you lately. How is your plane flying?
Bill B
From:
Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net]
On Behalf Of Chris Barber
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 8:06 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: : Good Movie
If it would have been for a Velocity and not an RV I would have thought the same thing. :-).
Chris.
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I had a friend post it on Facebook. I had to watch it a couple of times, as I was sure that someone I had talked to might have just recorded the conversation and posted
it wholesale 8*)
Jeff,
the vid. builders """handle""" hear on flyrotary is listed as shipcheif, conversed with him several times about 13B in RV9 I think. David R. Cook RV6A Rotary ( no new sorties for last 2 mths., weather, time.....bummer, was just getting comfortable )
From: "Jeff
Whaley" <jwhaley@datacast.com>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 10:35:38 AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: : Good Movie
I opened it at work Ernest (with good virus checking) … hasn’t blown my computer up yet …
Some of the lines are too surreal: “I’m building a homebuilt RV8 airplane with a Rotary Engine”; “The engine is pretty rare but
there are about 100 flying” … amazing.
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