Re: REFLECTOR: Re:variable scoops

[Alan Shaw <wingco@iu.net>]

David Brown wrote:

> Does anyone remember the door that opens on top of the Piper Seneca engine
> cowl for the A/C condensor when the A/C is running. I was wondering if a
> door like that on the bottom of the velocity cowl would work as an added
> cooling air source for engine and/or oil cooling. Kinda like a pilot
> operated cowl flap/scoop.

  Air is sucked out the rear of the cowling.  Air goes IN any other holes on
the cowling causing a loss of that precious vacuum.

Alan