X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from smtpauth07.mail.atl.earthlink.net ([209.86.89.67] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.2) with ESMTP id 963826 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Thu, 26 May 2005 05:49:40 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=209.86.89.67; envelope-from=Dastaten@earthlink.net Received: from [24.238.206.157] (helo=earthlink.net) by smtpauth07.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DbEz0-0004jO-SF for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Thu, 26 May 2005 05:48:55 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=simple; s=test1; d=earthlink.net; h=Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=lSI90TN3Ws2wGI7WczzPt1mqESbVQFUNdpwiblBw0RjV9wDnZhSoTp2iRjYTGTkH; Message-ID: <42959AF4.3050103@earthlink.net> Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 04:46:28 -0500 From: David Staten User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: The Rotary Powered Flyers Association References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: 9a30bff84e6cb88f95c85d38d22416599ef193a6bfc3dd489a070be63b98e80ff9f40eaad0212499c4f26bf0bb8d15d7350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 24.238.206.157 Jim Sower wrote: > I don't believe a "manual" of "suggested/accepted" practice would be > appropriate or particularly useful in an experimental arena. Nor would > I expect most folks to pay a lot of attention to it. > > A "black list" OTOH would be quite useful. Good suggestion, Jim. I also want to say, nothing I am desiring to do, or hoping the community would do... would be interpreted to stifle innovation. There is a difference between (and I will admit, a fine line that blurs easily) between "good practice/workmanship" and "Do it this way cause I said so". There is a lot of experimenting to be done. Those who are doing this now are the next wave of pioneers. A "manual" written by those who have gone before, and learned the hard way, can help save a lot of blood sweat and tears.Areas will this will benefit will be fuel, cooling and perhaps the electrical end of things. I respect your skepticism. And you are right.. this "group" WILL fizzle.. unless those who participate keep it from doing so. I will do my part. I just want to build engines, planes and share (the knowledge, experience and fun). Dave