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Bill,

Thanks for the feedback. Glad to hear that he did weld a bead on those pipes. I don’t know why I didn’t ask him myself when I was there last weekend. I guess I was just caught up in the moment. One less thing to worry about.

Mark S.

From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Bill Eslick
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 11:11 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Another rotary failure

Mark,

Jason did, in fact, weld a bead (and a nice one, at that) around the solid pieces to prevent this from happening. Thanks for your concern.

Bill Eslick

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From: Mark R Steitle

To: Rotary motors in aircraft

Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 2:36 PM

Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Another rotary failure

I was going to send a private email to Bill Eslick, but in the name of safety, decided to post it in hopes that maybe someone can answer my question. I attended the Mid-Winter Rotary fly-in and got a good, long look at Jason’s beautiful 13B installation. I don’t know if Jason is on this list, but I noticed that he had a combination of radiator hose bends which were clamped to straight pieces of aluminum tubing for coolant lines. Can anyone tell me if he put beads on the ends of those aluminum tubes? If not, they could slip off under pressure. I mentioned the use of common hose clamps vs. constant torque clamps and he replied that he was planning on swapping those out before first flight. Its just an observation, no intent to berate his beautiful installation on this forum. I would just hate for him to have a cooling system failure (blown hose), knowing that I didn’t say anything beforehand.

Is this “tip” on the Wikki?

Mark S.

From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Al Gietzen
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 1:50 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Another rotary failure

On the subject of failures in general, am I the only one who thinks there have just been way too many of these in the last couple years?

Of course you are not the only one. High on my priorities for selecting an engine was RELIABILITY. It seemed to me a rotary installation could be made more reliable than a Lycoming. I would hate to be proven wrong. We had a lengthy discussion some months ago about peer review, inspections, etc.; but nothing came of it. Apparently the majority feels the record is OK.

Al G

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