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03-07-2015, 12:49 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Brooksville, MS
Posts: 745
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Fuel farm upgrade
Since the upgrade, I see a 57% increase in speed, a 27% reduction in fuel burn, 30 degree reduction in CHT's, and the engines are much happier in all of the RV's!!!!! 
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Weasel
RV-4 715hr Sold 
RV-10 "School Bus" -  +1600hr counting
Fisher Classic Cassler Power VW sold
RV-10 N7631T 820hr Sold
RV-8 700+hrs
Carbon Cub 200 hr Sold
One-Off Super Cub 100 hr
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03-07-2015, 02:04 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Pocahontas MS
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Pushing the Experimental Envelope. Me like.
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03-07-2015, 02:32 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Omaha, NE (KMLE)
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Does that blend have castor oil, or that nasty tasting red synthetic stuff? 
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Dale
Omaha, NE
RV-12 # 222 N980KM "Screamin' Canary" (bought flying)
Fisher Celebrity (under construction)
Previous RV-7 project (sold)
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03-07-2015, 03:08 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Dallas area
Posts: 10,761
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Save money on oil changes. TBO is now same as oil change interval!
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Mel Asberry, DAR since the last century.
EAA Flight Advisor/Tech Counselor, Friend of the RV-1
Recipient of Tony Bingelis Award and Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award
USAF Vet, High School E-LSA Project Mentor.
RV-6 Flying since 1993 (sold)
<rvmel(at)icloud.com>
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03-08-2015, 11:24 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Wichita, KS
Posts: 1,957
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DaleB
Does that blend have castor oil, or that nasty tasting red synthetic stuff? |
Isn't it crazy that the taste is what we remember from RC fuel?
The castor oil blend doesn't exactly taste pleasant either.
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Kurt W.
RV9A
FLYING!!!
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03-08-2015, 11:30 AM
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Senior Curmudgeon
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Dayton Airpark, NV A34
Posts: 15,408
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Weasel
a 27% reduction in fuel burn,
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nope----------lots higher fuel burn.
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Mike Starkey
VAF 909
Rv-10, N210LM.
Flying as of 12/4/2010 
Phase 1 done, 2/4/2011
Sold after 240+ wonderful hours of flight.
"Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it."
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03-08-2015, 11:56 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Omaha, NE (KMLE)
Posts: 2,246
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Quote:
Originally Posted by krw5927
Isn't it crazy that the taste is what we remember from RC fuel?
The castor oil blend doesn't exactly taste pleasant either.
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I spent about half my youth at the Omahawks R/C flying field, wiping castor oil off of wings and fuselages. I hardly knew what a sandwich tasted like without castor oil. When they started using the red synthetic stuff, it was just horrible.
I do kind of miss the nitromethane though.
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Dale
Omaha, NE
RV-12 # 222 N980KM "Screamin' Canary" (bought flying)
Fisher Celebrity (under construction)
Previous RV-7 project (sold)
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03-08-2015, 04:38 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Anchorage, Alaska
Posts: 132
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A lot of us are still heavily into model aviation. In addition to nitro, we now use electrons and Jet-A.
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Bob Edison
RV-7 N749ER...(GO NINERS)
ATP CFI-II-ME
Anchorage, Alaska
Let me know if you're RVing to Anchorage!
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03-08-2015, 05:08 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Garden City Texas
Posts: 878
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I built and flew model airplanes. I just love the smell of of that burnt fuel!
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