YS Engines

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Del is right on. The same could be said for retracts vs fixed gear. We 
eventually got them working super easy, but many had experienced more problems with 
retracts than with fixed gear. 

One of the best and most successful Pattern pilots of all time, Hanno 
Prettner, opted to fly and win with the simple looking, easier set-up, "Calypso" at 
'91 World Championship (I think it was '91, in P'cola), vs. the much more 
"sophisticated" and complex "Magic". Both were his designs for those folks new to 
this sport
. 

The Magic sported things like reversible pitch prop, flaps, tricycle retracts 
and spoilers, with an inverted engine exhausting through the fuse top, and 
exiting through the bottom of the fuse. It was an engineering feat and a half 
for a pattern model. 

In contrast, the Calypso sported a side exhaust, simple, sport style engine, 
canted to around 8 o'clock, with the pipe exhausting through the fuse bottom, 
and also had retracts but only two, plus a tail wheel. That was about as 
sophisticated as it got. He opted for reliability that comes from simplicity. We 
should learn from that lead.

Matt K
> Subj:Re: YS Engines 
> Date:3/29/2004 6:32:09 AM Eastern Standard Time
> From:drykert at localnet.com
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> To:discussion at nsrca.org
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> I have felt dependable low maintenance performance is the best package for 
> competition. Leaves more time to help others and socialize. When we only had 
> to fix and fly it was different but now that we fly and work it means we need 
> lower maintenance packages to be competitive.
>  
>                          del 
>                NSRCA - 473
> 
> >> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: Mark Hunt 
>> To: discussion at nsrca.org 
>> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 11:46 PM
>> Subject: Re: YS Engines
>> 
>> 
>> Simplicity is not a word you want attached to your high-tech pattern 
>> aircraft anyway....
>>  
>>  
>> 
>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: Lance Van Nostrand 
>>> To: discussion at nsrca.org 
>>> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 10:40 PM
>>> Subject: Re: YS Engines
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Jim,
>>> I'll bet by now you can assemble and disassemble the 15 moving parts that 
>>> make up just the head of that engine with your eyes closed.  It's a zen 
>>> like procedure that brings comfort and joy.  
>>>   My engine only has one part (glow plug) and it doesn't move.  while 
>>> you're doing that I'll have to find something else to tinker with....[where's 
>>> the wife.....]
>>> --Lance
>>> 
>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> From: jim ivey 
>>>> To: discussion at nsrca.org 
>>>> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 10:28 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: YS Engines
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Lance 
>>>> 
>>>> Guess I am getting soothed then. I just started the 3rd rebuild on a YS 
>>>> 140L.It has 450 flights on it.
>>>> 
>>>> Jim Ivey
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>>>> 
>>>> jivey61 at msn.com 
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>>>> 
>>>> >From: "Lance Van Nostrand" <patterndude at comcast.net> 
>>>> >Reply-To: discussion at nsrca.org 
>>>> >To: <discussion at nsrca.org> 
>>>> >Subject: Re: YS Engines 
>>>> >Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:24:32 -0600 
>>>> > 
>>>> >Ed, 
>>>> >Pattern guys love to tinker. If they are not adjusting something, 
>>>> replacing something, or doing periodic maintenance, they feel lost.  Therefore, 
>>>> YS engines help soothe the pattern mind. 
>>>> >--Lance 
>>>> > 
>>>> >   ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> >   From: Edward C. Hernandez 
>>>> >   To: discussion at nsrca.org 
>>>> >   Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 9:55 PM 
>>>> >   Subject: YS Engines 
>>>> > 
>>>> > 
>>>> >      Ok, time for another newbie question: it seems to me from the 
>>>> discussion and contest results and a few copies of the K factor that Kane gave 
>>>> me at the D4 contest last year that pattern pilots prefer YS engines, yet 
>>>> YS engines don't seem to dominate in other kinds of flying(IMAC, scale, 
>>>> fun fly, etc). Um, why? 
>>>> > 
>>>> >   Ed Hernandez 
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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