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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: Quickie 500 Needs to be REFORMED!!
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- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 15:16:00 GMT
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- In article <ericw.713649487@hobbes| ericw@hobbes.amd.com (Eric Wedaa) writes:
- |lew@4ccvt2.scg.hac.com (Lyman Lew) writes:
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- ||1.
- ||2.
- ||3.
- ||4.
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- |1-4 are NOT good ideas!
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- ||5. Put fuel shutoffs of some kind on the engines should a wing
- ||depart from the fuselage.
- |
- |This should be easy enough to do. (And is a good idea anyways...)
- |You could just some sort of cable leading from inside the wing
- |or some bolted on part of the wing, to the fuel line. Then, if the
- |wing pops off, either A) it pulls the fuel line from the engine/gas tank,
- |or B) (If your fuel line does not give) keeps the wing semi-attached
- |to the fueselage.
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- ||6. Install a drag chute in the fuselage should the wing depart
- ||from the fuselage.
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-
- Here are some other restrictions that might work and not obsolete
- anything:
-
- 1) Restrict venturi size. This was done with FAI Combat and caused
- a pretty good slowdown. That class was getting too fast for pilots
- to keep up with. Didn't reduce the carnage though...
-
- 2) Legislate a competition prop. Hopefully something large enough
- to slow things down. The Nelson can't produce power at lower
- rpm's so they'd have to modify it (eg. lower the exhaust timing)
- with the end result being lower speeds overall.
-
- 3) Reduce the amount of nitro allowed in the management-supplied
- fuel.
-
- 4) Use a metered volume of fuel. Competitors will have the option
- of running wide open and running out of fuel (resulting in a Zero
- score) or throttling back and not running out of fuel. Easy to do
- with a syringe (the officials suck tanks dry before they refill
- it to avoid people putting pure nitro in the tank before taking
- it to the filling station).
-
- They could also just ban the Nelson or have a $150 price cap. The
- problem is that the other engines also have pretty high list prices.
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