> "Stephen Jacobs" <ask...@microlink.zm> writes:
> I prefer airplane engines for one reason only - they windmill -
> VW's don't, they stop dead if there is a second's interruption
> in the fuel. I presume that Corvair engines also don't windmill
> (if they do please let me know).
Steve, why do you want the dead engine to windmill ?
Didn't the CAFE folks find that a =stopped= prop was better
for glide range than one windmilling ? Circa 1991, Kitplanes
&/or Sport Aviation...
Or, the electric in-flight-adjustable Ivoprops can be feathered
which is the very best for maximum-range glides. They cost
a lot less than even the first airplane-engine part that one will
eventually have to buy.
Art Cacella 1970 American AA-1 N6155L "Dinkie"
1972 KR-1 Plans, still not started <sigh>
( but four metal homebuilts underway )
Winston-Salem, NC
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