Serge VIDAL wrote: > I will make a hot air intake by adapting a flange to the engine baffles, > in the cylinders cooling fins area.
I don't think you'll get very hot air off the cylinders. Remember that you'll be need this in the winter time, when cooling air will be cold, and flowing over heads that might only be 200 degrees. So now you have air that might be 100 degrees, or even colder. If you are SURE that you'll only be breathing cylinder cooling air, that might work, but with my setup I get air that's maybe 75 degrees warmer, and I'm sucking it off of a 1000 degree exhaust pipe 4" away. Of course Bill Clapp and some other folks have flown just sucking cowling air, but when you introduce outside air under pressure into the system, you have to make sure that source is sealed off completely if you expect your hot air source to provide sufficiently warm air to provide icing. Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net --------------------------------------------------------------
