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Hi Dave.
Basically, the Swiss muffler is attributed to the tough
noise abatement rules of the Swiss government for aircraft - including
small GA and experimental. Tony Bingelis who wrote a column of "How to"
for Sport Aviation for years included it in one of his books "FireWall
Forward"-Page 112.
The muffler (as shown in his book) was an aluminum tube 3
1/8" in diameter about 4 -5 feet long. A stainless steel mesh was rolled
into a smaller diameter tube to be stuck in the middle after
fiberglass cloth was wrapped around the mesh tube.
This was all stuffed in the 3 1/8" aluminum tube making a very light weight
and effective muffler. Sort of a light weight glass-pack
muffler.
It was then hung under the belly of the
aircraft.
The problem for the rotary is that the exhaust pulse will
pulverize fiberglass (or almost anything else in short time).
Again, the problem is not the heat its the power of the exhaust
pulse.
Hope that explained it.
Ed
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Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 6:44
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Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Another
exploding cigar??
On 22, Feb , at 6:29 AM, Ed Anderson wrote:
Thanks, Jason.
My experiments with the Swiss muffler did not
work out -
Ed
Hi
Ed,
could you explain "Swiss" muffler?
TIA,
Dave
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