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I can wholeheartedly relate to your sentiments as I share them. As I told several of my hangar neighbors when they poked a little fun at me after loosing the rotor on way to Sun &Fun, ".....show me a Lycoming that will bring you back with half of the cylinders gone!" Besides that - as those photos show trashing connecting rods will almost certainly break open the case dumping oil onto a hot exhaust, draining the engine of oil so that if it has not seize by this point it shortly will - all are something else you don't face when you lose a rotor.
Every two years I have to fly behind a reciprocating engine for my BFR and it takes me a while to stop thinking about those pistons and connecting rods trying to tear themselves apart and concentrate on the refresher training.
Ed A
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ernest Christley" <echristley@nc.rr.com>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 4:10 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Why I opted for the rotary
There are a list of problems that will stop a rotary cold, but the
pictures here are what I see a piston engine trying to do to itself
whenever I visualize one running.
http://carneyaviation.com/enginefire/
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