X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 08:29:12 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [204.13.112.10] (HELO mail1.hometel.com) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.6) with ESMTPS id 622162 for lml@lancaironline.net; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 08:22:55 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=204.13.112.10; envelope-from=marknlisa@hometel.com Received: (qmail 41081 invoked by uid 90); 2 Aug 2005 12:25:46 -0000 Received: from mail.hometel.com (HELO webmail.hometel.com) (204.13.112.10) by mail.hometel.com with SMTP; 2 Aug 2005 12:25:46 -0000 Received: from 209.83.158.123 (SquirrelMail authenticated user marknlisa); by webmail.hometel.com with HTTP; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 07:25:46 -0500 (CDT) X-Original-Message-ID: <1156.209.83.158.123.1122985546.squirrel@209.83.158.123> In-Reply-To: References: X-Original-Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 07:25:46 -0500 (CDT) Subject: RE: Turbine Revolution From: marknlisa@hometel.com X-Original-To: lml@lancaironline.net X-Original-Cc: brent@regandesigns.com User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Brent, Actually, the fuel density of Jet A is more like 6.3 to 6.8 lbs/gal depending on temp. We (I'm an ex KC-135 boom operator) used 6.4 for all our weight & balance calcs for JP-4. Of course, a Brake Specific Fuel Consumption (BSFC) of .67 lbs/HP is still pretty bad... Mark & Lisa Sletten Legacy FG N828LM http://www.legacyfgbuilder.com On Mon, August 1, 2005 7:54 pm, Brent Regan said: > you now have 8 gallons per hour per 76 horsepower or (given 8 lbs per > gallon for Jet-A) 64 lbs per hour per 76 horsepower or 0.84 pounds per > horsepower hour. My Lycoming running at 75% power and 150 deg F rich of