Super Ada Seminar:

I believe the Ada trip was worth as much as any seminar I have attended,
thanks to George, Walter, & Tim. Their inputs were frank and backed up by
data! Also thanks to Mike for organizing and for the ride to Ada.

I had done some baffle sealing on my ES and was told before the session
started it was probably not a good idea. After seeing the data, I was
convinced and the first thing I did today was to remove my mods.

I looked at my engine and the baffling was bad as described in the seminar.
For those who did not attend Grayhawk and others have posted a good summary
of what was presented.

George, Walter, anyone else - I looked at making the necessary mods using
aluminum brackets and the attachments are, as you know, very difficult. How
about using fiberglass soaked in thinned high temp RTV (Bill Hannahan's
idea) and bonding the sheet to the fin outer surfaces with unthinned high
temp RTV?  This is what I had done the mods with before and I had to cut the
sheets out with a knife to remove them, no way would they come out by
grabbing the soaked fiberglass with pliers and pulling!

I tried this today on one of the bottom fin areas that were ignored by
Lancair and it looks like it will stick and guide the air where it is
needed.

Any comments from anyone before I try additional areas?


Eugene Long
Lancair Super ES
glong2@netzero.net