Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #2455
From: Perry Casson <pcasson@sk.sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Cooing Questions
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 21:25:39 -0400
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Hi Tommy,

Did you make the cut-out in the lower edge of the fuselage for the flap as
per S-H instructions (shown as DE in your drawing)?  If you did DE should
only be about 1.0"

Just for grins, any of you guys with high speed connections may get a kick
out of my 1st start video.  (actually it was the second start, my first was
with no exhaust and using a jerry can for a gas tank back in January).  It's
at http://eaa154.dhs.org/perry/engine/EngineStart.mpg

Perry Casson


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tommy James" <twjames@healed.org>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 7:17 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Cooing Questions


Hi Guys,
Attached is a line drawing of a side view cowling with an outlet duct in
the
bottom.  It is lettered counterclockwise from the lower left corner A
through G.
BC is a movable cowl flap, DE is the lower edge of the fuselage, and EF is
the firewall.
If we want to open the exit area, we can :
1.  increase the angle downward on the flap, but this will increase drag.
2.
move BC forward, keeping the angle the same, but increasing the distance
from point C to point D.

Glastar recommends a 20 degree, 5"x20" cowl flap with about a 3"X20"
opening.  Dis ain't enough...:-)

What negative effects can be expected from plan #2?  Will there be
turbulence up into the firewall area?  Will even more drag be induced?

Any ideas appreciated, (well, almost any..)
Tommy James<><



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