marinetrader
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Not much you can do to keep it off. The only product that works good for me is Spray 9.
*I do get up on plane, but Moonstruck has a self regulator to keep from speeding up too fast. *When the turbos spool up, there would be a danger of throwing the crew over the stern. *I would put a smiley face here, but it is true.FF wrote:
True, but few on this board are attempting to get up on the plane.
Low speed black smoke is an engine problem , not a dopy operator.
Moonstruck wrote:*
On the other hand, lack of a regulator might just come in handy sometime. And I will put in aI do get up on plane, but Moonstruck has a self regulator to keep from speeding up too fast. *When the turbos spool up, there would be a danger of throwing the crew over the stern. *I would put a smiley face here, but it is true.
dwhatty wrote:Moonstruck wrote:*
On the other hand, lack of a regulator might just come in handy sometime. And I will put in aI do get up on plane, but Moonstruck has a self regulator to keep from speeding up too fast. *When the turbos spool up, there would be a danger of throwing the crew over the stern. *I would put a smiley face here, but it is true.
*Unless there is an afterburner and a cat involved it will never compare to a lightly loaded turboprop on water injection.Moonstruck wrote:Flywright and the other jet jockeys know the feeling accellerating down the runway.
I hear what you are saying but I excluded the recips because the post was about turbines.FF wrote:
Turboprop is simply a turbine and gear box , that will take 6-9 seconds to spin up from idle.
THe good old radial 3350 , supercharged with PRT and water injection (51 inches manifold with the water pumping) accelerates like any gas engine , almost instantly.