Re: [Aus-soaring] Maiden flight of Ventus-2cxa

How can it possibly beat the opposition with performance eating kinks? Very strange the way Schempp-Hirth (and DG) go to so much trouble to manufacture the wings with those kinks when clearly the glider would perform better without them Nick. On 3/31/07, Ian McPhee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: [Aus-soaring] Maiden flight of Ventus-2cxa

At 08:37 PM 1/04/2007, you wrote: Original Message - From: Chris Kiehn To: 'Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.' Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 11:12 PM Subject: [Aus-soaring] Maiden flight of Ventu

Re: [Aus-soaring] Unleaded with Ethanol and glass fuel tanks

At 11:15 AM 1/04/2007, you wrote: Ian I am no SME but here is my E10 cents worth. I did a government grant proposal on Ethanol what a pity I lost that info when I lost a hard drive a few months ago. Did you figure out how much diesel you have to burn to make a liter of ethanol? In fact for e

RE: [Aus-soaring] Unleaded with Ethanol and glass fuel tanks

ABC Radio today, reported US V8 Race cars have announced that they will all run on 100% ethanol. US car manufacturers will have half their engines able to do the same by next year. Corn farmers are planting 15% more corn for the 114 ethanol plants operating in the USA. Ethanol is coming, we might

RE: [Aus-soaring] Unleaded with Ethanol and glass fuel tanks

Comment was made early in this thread about the replacement of Shell Optimax with a fuel that contains ethanol. Optimax was replaced by "V-Power" 98 octane. There is no mention on the pump, or on Shell's website, of there being any ethanol in V-Power. At the same time, a new fuel "V-Power Racing"

RE: [Aus-soaring] Unleaded with Ethanol and glass fuel tanks

Initially Optimax was the market leader in premium grade fuel then going back a few years some of our cousins with Ultralights were having problems with Optimax, destroying seals and diaphragms in the fuel system from memory. It has been a quite on that front at late, maybe Chris K is able to prov

[Aus-soaring] re: ethenol

Rumour - ethenol takes 3 litres of water per litre to produce uh oh, which do we need more? Wayne ___ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/lis

RE: [Aus-soaring] Unleaded with Ethanol and glass fuel tanks

The presentation by Embraer on their Inpanema which uses 100% Ethanol was very interesting indeed. The upshot of it was that they had manufactured special fuel tanks, had changed all of their fuel system hardware to stainless steel, replace all hoses with Teflon coated hoses and replace O'rings wit

[Aus-soaring] dalby turnpoint file

Hi all, A little late but there none the less, the Dalby 07 file can be downloaded at the turnpoint exchange - http://soaringweb.org/TP/Dalby See you all there - weathers still looking good! Nigel Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web www.rf-developments.com

Re: [Aus-soaring] re: ethenol

At 11:12 AM 2/04/2007, you wrote: Rumour - ethenol takes 3 litres of water per litre to produce uh oh, which do we need more? Wayne ___ Wayne, I can't give the reference but I'm told it is much, much worse than that. Then you have to get rid of