Mailing List lml@lancaironline.net Message #30458
From: Matt Hapgood <matt.hapgood@alumni.duke.edu>
Sender: <marv@lancaironline.net>
Subject: RE: [LML] Re: Induction air filter
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 10:34:49 -0400
To: <lml@lancaironline.net>
John (or anyone else),
 
Your construction and design is beautiful.  I have been facing the "alternate air" issue and haven't done anything so elegant.
 
I do have one concern though - If and when you need alternate air, will your system function as desired?  Specifically, where would the foreign object (bird) or ice be likely to cause a problem?  I would think that it would be so far into the back of the system that your alternate air would not be functional - ie. the filter would be in front of the problem.
 
A possible simple suggestion would be to put a basic screen at the cowl opening that would block passage of foreign objects.

Would ice accumulate on a screen?  Would this be better than accumulating farther back in the fuel servo?  Is that even possible?
 
Thanks,
 
Matt
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