REFLECTOR: Deltahawk engine
Richard Riley
Richard at Riley.net
Sat May 7 13:20:19 CDT 2005
Done.
Winner to get a good bottle of single malt.
And I won't hold you to the date. Whenever you're done.
At 11:12 AM 5/7/05, you wrote:
>OK, I take the challenge!
>
>I still need to get my pilot licence, but I'll hopefully get it this month.
>
>I still need to build my Velocity, but I already ordered the kit and will
>start on Sept 1st. According to Velocity Inc, it should take 800h to
>build it. At 25h/week that means 40 weeks, which means that I should be
>done by August 1st, 2006. I certainly intend to use a Deltahawk engine,
>most likely a 200HP one with an MT constant speed propeller, so my
>airplane will satisfy your spec.
>
>To make it fun, I propose to race coast-to-coast, say from somewhere
>arround New York to somewhere arround San Francisco.
>
>:-) (but I'm serious, too)
>
>Grigore
>
>
>
>On Sat, 7 May 2005, Richard Riley wrote:
>
>>Hey, if you're going to race with stuff that belongs to other people, I'm
>>going to put a business card in the next Delta IV payload.
>>
>>But seriously, I think a 540 Berkut with a fixed pitch prop against a
>>200hp Velocity with an MT would be an interesting race, either for climb
>>or for speed.
>>
>>At 10:14 AM 5/7/05, you wrote:
>>>Nether am I.... F-15
>>>
>>>At 09:48 AM 5/7/2005, you wrote:
>>>>At 07:22 AM 5/7/05, you wrote:
>>>>>I hope I get the chance to race Mr. 540 to 30,000 feet, or more. "Oh
>>>>>no, not another challenge that I cant' fly now but must in the
>>>>>future." JP just stow it till you can do it.
>>>>OK, but remember, I'm not flying a Velocity.
>>>>
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