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The electric fan you'll need to run to keep the engine cool will eat up a
lot of your profit. -- Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways) "Rich S." wrote in message ... "Russell Kent" wrote in message ... Not a half bad idea, until you do the math. At 180 HP at the prop you're talking 134 kilowatts of power. That's probably _only_ 120 kilowatts if the generator is 90% efficient. (Actually, I hope it is better than that, because the leftover watts go into heating the generator!) It seems to me that a generator capable of handling that size power conversion would be expensive to rent... Split the profit with the generator owner. If you cook the books right, there won't be any money left over for him - you know, like Hollywood studios do when they make a percentage deal with a star. Rich "It's all in the numbers" S. |
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Bob
Talking about fans reminded me of this bit of humor. BLONDE PILOT Now this is right up there as far as blond jokes go. A blonde pilot decided she wanted to learn how to fly a helicopter. She went to the airport, but the only one available was a solo-helicopter. The instructor figured he could let her go up alone since she was already a pilot for small planes and he could instruct her via radio. So up the blonde went. She reached 1,000 feet and everything was going smoothly. She reached 2,000 feet. The blonde and the instructor kept talking via radio. Everything was going smoothly. At 3,000 feet the helicopter suddenly came down! It skimmed the top of some trees and crash landed in the woods. The instructor jumped into his jeep and rushed out to see if the blonde was okay. As he reached the edge of the woods, the blonde was walking out. "What happened?" the instructor asked. "All was going so well until you reached 3,000 feet. What happened then?" "Well," began the blonde, "I got cold. So I turned off the ceiling fan." |
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