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1. 05:03 AM - Mazda's (flamini2)
2. 05:47 AM - Re: Mazda's (Jerry Hey)
3. 06:52 AM - Fw: Sad story (Jerry Hey)
4. 07:14 AM - Re: Fw: Sad story (Ruhnke, Mike)
5. 05:46 PM - Does anyone need wing materials? (Bruce E. Butts)
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Time: 09:22:09 AM PST US
From: "Tracy Crook" <lors01@msn.com>
Subject: Re: RV-List: SNF Judging & SUN 100 Race
--> RV-List message posted by: "Tracy Crook" <lors01@msn.com>
Speaking of results,
How come all you 160 HP RVers stayed away from the Sun 100 race this year? There
weren't enough of us to form a class this time so I had to race against the
fast glass retractable, canards, etc. I came in third at 216.1 mph behind a
pair of Lancairs. Only .7 mph behind the 2nd place and beat a Glasair that came
in 4th.
Flew at 220 IAS but the high winds knocked the average down. Have not flutter
tested above 220 but would have been tempted to use a little of my reserve power
if I have known the 2nd place Lancair was that close.
Tracy (not victorious but God!, was that fun!)
Mazda 13B powered RV-4
Dennis Flamini N564DF race #53 Chicago
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Dennis, thanks for posting Tracy's email. I had not seen it. This is
the same engine with which he won his class last year. At that time
it was making about 180/190 hp. The only change was to go to a
different drive ratio which allowed the Mazda to spin more rpm. As
the RPM go up so does the HP, rather dramatically. No doubt, Tracy's
engine is now generating more than 200 hp. Note that he was not flying
wide open throttle, even though it was a race. Tracy's engine is
fairly stock. It is not peripheral ported or turbo charged. I believe
it has been street ported which is basically modifying the intake
ports with Devcon. Jerry
On Thursday, April 22, 2004, at 07:07 AM, flamini2 wrote:
> Time: 09:22:09 AM PST US
> From: "Tracy Crook" <lors01@msn.com>
> Subject: Re: RV-List: SNF Judging & SUN 100 Race
>
> --> RV-List message posted by: "Tracy Crook" <lors01@msn.com>
>
> Speaking of results,
>
> How come all you 160 HP RVers stayed away from the Sun 100 race this
> year?=A0 There
> weren't enough of us to form a class this time so I had to race
> against the
> fast glass retractable, canards, etc.=A0 I came in third at 216.1 mph
> behind a
> pair of Lancairs.=A0 Only .7 mph behind the 2nd place and beat a Glasair
> that came
> in 4th.
>
> Flew at 220 IAS but the high winds knocked the average down.=A0 Have not
> flutter
> tested above 220 but would have been tempted to use a little of my
> reserve power
> if I have known the 2nd place Lancair was that close.
>
> Tracy (not victorious but God!, was that fun!)
> Mazda 13B powered RV-4
>
> Dennis Flamini N564DF race #53 Chicago
>
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--> Tailwind-List message posted by: Jerry Hey <j-winddesigns@thegrid.net>
This is the other side of the experimental, auto conversion game. It
is not always fun. Learning can be expensive and down right dangerous.
It is the little things that you don't worry about at the time that
can spell disaster. Be careful and use proven methods when ever
possible. Jerry
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>> Ian Beadle wrote:
>>
>> Hi Paul
>>
>> I'm afraid I won?t be contributing much to ACRE in future as I
>> crashed the RV
>> last weekend. Fortunately no injuries but the plane is a right off.
>>
>> We had flown in to a vintage car show at a country town and used a
>> marked off area of a paddock as an airstrip. On climb after takeoff
>> at about 2000 ft
>> coolant sprayed over the windscreen and temperatures started to
>> climb. I elected to return to the strip lose height where we were,
>> and do a straight in
>> approach. I was so worried about being too low and too slow that I
>> started the approach too high and too fast.
>>
>> I sideslipped to lose height but when I should have been
>> concentrating on the roundout I was distracted by the proximity of
>> the fence and trees. The result
>> was a hard landing the nose wheel dug in, and the plane flipped over.
>> On a hard strip I would have got away with it.
>>
>> Now the reason why.
>>
>> The lower hose from the water pump blew off. The reason was that I
>> had fitted a thick walled pipe from the engine to the pressurised
>> overflow bottle. The bore
>> of the pipe was too small to take a large flow of water as the engine
>> heated up.
>>
>> It has been my practice to allow the engine to reach operating
>> temperature after taxiing. On this occasion we had to taxi over the
>> rough surface to get to the
>> strip which was a bit soft. I had to use more power than normal to
>> taxi and take off . The rapid expansion of coolant was too much for
>> the overflow pipe and
>> coolant pressure blew the pump hose off. The EIS was set to alarm low
>> pressure not high.
>>
>
>> Ian Beadle
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--> Tailwind-List message posted by: "Ruhnke, Mike" <ruhnkem@rayovac.com>
My own little story goes... I was going to do some Take-offs and landings in the
old Piper Colt. For some reason on the pre-flight I reached inside the cowl
to wiggle the sparkplug wires. To my amazement 2 of 4 of them were about to
fall off. The plane had just had it annual done and the A&P forgot to torque
them. I got lucky that day. It just goes to show it don't matter what's under
the hood sometimes...
Mike NW Illinois
Do not archive
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| Subject: | Does anyone need wing materials? |
--> Tailwind-List message posted by: "Bruce E. Butts" <bbutts@columbus.rr.com>
I recently acquired the Tailwind fuselage that was listed on EBay
(Thanks to George Turner for the heads up on that). When I picked up
the fuselage, I found that three pieces of 14 foot long by 5 and 9/16
inch wide and 3/4 inch thick spruce came with it and 8 sheets of 3/32
mahogany plywood to cover the wings and probably enough smaller pieces of
spruce to make all the ribs too.
I am building metal wings so I do not need the spruce and plywood.
Does anyone need wing materials?
I am in Columbus Ohio and while I am thrilled to have the fuselage, I
will have to completely reorganize my shop to store the spruce and
plywood properly. So if someone needs it and is willing to come get
it, I am willing to sell it to recoup a little of my expense.
Bruce E. Butts
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