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Thoroughbred Ford
Kansas City 's Premier Ford Dealership
I-29 & Barry Rd.
Kansas City, MO 64154
(816) 505-1818
(808) 808-FORD
http://www.thoroughbredford.com
Abstract
Learn how artificial intelligence helps CI professionals to get unprecedented understanding of what’s going on in their industry : key trends, new technologies, competitor's moves and more…
This session is both theoretical and practical. This will be illustrated on how Machine Learning brings context when it comes to identifying information about companies.
Key topics
Provide an understanding of the current trends in the information industry, especially concerning MI/CI
Give an overview of the solutions offered by artificial intelligence technologies
Explain how disruptive providers can help, versus the challenge you are likely to face if you try alone
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Dear Friend.
My name is Saroj Nair. I am writing to share with you an exciting and proven opportunity for you to take control of your financial future. In these next few pages.
And how you can. Too.
Are you where you want to be in life? Are you comfortable with your financial situation? Are you tired of dreaming about a different life. A different future?
If I could show you a simple and inexpensive method for starting your own home business in amatter of minutes - One with no inventory to carry or product delivery on your part - Is there any reason you can think of that would prevent you from learning more?
MY PROMISE RIGHT NOW IS TO PROVIDE YOU WITH EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO GET STARTED TODAY!
No hype. No tall-tales about generating wealth in a few days. Just the facts about a wonderful opportunity to change your financial destiny.
Over the last four decades I have had the good fortune of helping thousands of average people achieve financial success.
What you hold in your hands is the best opportunity I have ever seen over my 19-year career- and I've seen them all!
keep reading. You're in for a wonderful surprise!
Highest Regards.
Saroj Nair
Team Eagles - Vestige.
Call: 9821866521, 9871663681
The 2014 Cadillac CTS-V is one of Gary Lang Cadillac's most prestigious luxury vehicles available. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact a Cadillac Sales Specialist at 815-385-2100.
NANO…one billionth of one and one third of micro, to be precise 10^-9m. Nanotechnology is much discussed these days as an emerging frontier – a realm in which machines operate at scales of billionth a meter. It is actually a multitude of rapidly emerging technologies based upon the scaling down of existing technologies to the next level of precision and miniaturization. In the field of nano technologies researchers are enthusiastic about its potential applications in fields such as energy, medicine, electronics, computing and materials. Of late, one of the emerging aspects dealing Nanotechnology in mechanical field is the internal combustion engine on a nano scale, which we have chosen as our area of interest. Heat engines have evolved from external combustion engines to internal combustion engines and the hot off the block is the nano internal combustion engine.
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Improvingthebreedthroughtheneedforspeed.
By Tom Wilson
Elsewhere this month Eric Stewart
presents an interview with artisan fab-
ricator and Sport Class pioneer Andy
Chiavetta, who expertly maps the rele-
vant,vibrant,Sport ClassracingatReno
each September.
To get a little closer to the action,
here we’re zeroing in on relatively new,
but already well-established Sport Class
pilot Andrew Findlay, his team, and
details of his Lancair racer pertinent to
Experimental builders. Andrew’s One
Moment Racing is of particular inter-
est because he combines the current
generation’s facility with electronics,
engine management, and team build-
ing with a competitive airframe and
better than average sponsorship. The
result is a remarkably fast and efficient
Lancair Legacy.
OneMoment’sPrincipal
One way to describe Findlay, man-
ager, quality and reliability at Stihl, is a
competitive young man with a bent for
engines. Growing up in McCall, Idaho,
his early interests were snocross racing
snowmobiles in winter, dirt bikes in
summer, and fast cars in between. These
continued through a mechanical engi-
neering degree from the University of
Idaho, where his team built a snowmo-
bile for the Society of Automotive Engi-
neers Clean Snowmobile Challenge.
Given all that internal combustion
snow blowing, it was logical Andrew
joined Bombardier as an engine engi-
neer, a move putting him in contact
with many of those still with him at One
Moment Racing. And those contacts are
important to this airplane story, as while
Andrew is certainly the center of gravity
in his Lancair, this is very much a tale of
team effort and talent.
Andrew had a meaningful run at
Bombardier, but ultimately his major
achievement was being “fired for
Findlay’s Flyer
Findlay’s speedy Legacy is still finding its 400-mph racing legs,
but it’s already a standout continent-crosser. Running lean of
peak, it gets 21 mpg at over 280 mph. (Photo: Kevin Dobler)
Andrew Findlay, left, and Mark Voss consult
the numbers after a Reno heat race.
3. racers,however,OneMomenthasmainly
developed more horsepower, and as this
hot rodding also translates into excellent
cruise speeds and fuel burns—Andrew
is still daily driving the Lancair—we’ll
mainly confine ourselves to the noisy end
of the airplane in this article.
Generally speaking, the big Conti-
nental has had its compression ratio
reduced to a boost-friendly 6.5:1 via
Ly-Con pistons and ported cylinders,
uses Continental’s fuel system (for now)
and intake manifolding, greater capac-
ity Turbonetics turbochargers, and a
slightly modified Light Speed Engineer-
ing ignition system.
Being an engine engineer Andrew
is conversant with the fundamentals
of engine design and tuning, and has
brought some of his ground-based
motorsports tools to the cockpit. Fuel-
ing, for example, is measured more
directly via oxygen sensors and is typi-
cally addressed in terms of air/fuel ratio
rather than the more removed metrics of
gallons per hour or EGTs.
A feature of Andrew’s engine philoso-
phy is dispensing with air-to-air charge
cooling (intercoolers) in favor of anti-
detonation injection exclusively. The
big advantage is eliminating the drag
of ducting all that cooling air past the
charge coolers, plus the boost penalty
imposedbythechargecooler’scoretothe
16 KITPLANES September 2016 www.kitplanes.com & www.facebook.com/kitplanes
The cockpit is typical Legacy inside with a few interesting bits added. Among the toggle
switches at the far, lower left are the spray bar and backup spray bar switches. All spray
water is manually activated. Among the colored rocker switches is a red “race power”
master switch for the ADI pumps, which are on separate buses and computer (primary)
or manually (backup) controlled. The ADI master is there to avoid accidentally triggering
“water” during less than race power, as it will put the fire out. The boost knob is yellow,
the silver rim is boost with Innovate air/fuel instruments to the right. Vertical Power VPX
e-circuit breakers control power to all systems; there is no telemetry to the pits.
The five-gallon water/alcohol ADI tank
straps in place of the passenger seat; the
prominent orange and three lobe black
device is a video camera suction mount
and the cylinders under the tank are the
primary and backup ADI pumps. ADI is
central to Andrew’s race power, but is not
used outside of Reno. Barely visible behind
the ADI tank is the 10-gallon spray bar
water reservoir. Distilled water is used for
spray to reduce mineral deposits all over
the under-cowl machinery.
There’s another 24 gph of water being
sprayed on the exterior of the engine, too.
The spray bar circuit is one big loop with
16 emitters, starting with three 2-gph
nozzles inside of each of the cowling’s
two cooling air inlets as shown here.
It’simpossibletodenytheprofessionalStihlgraphicsofFindlay’sLegacy;theygivetheplane
a standout presence. And yes, it would be easy to dismiss the big Stihl signage as a lucky
breakbyaguywhoworksthere,butthatwouldbemissingtherealitythatStihlfindsReno’s
racingdemographicsahappyfitwiththeirproductsandmarketingplans.
Thesponsorshipstartedtentativelyin2014,oneyearafterAndrewappearedattheNational
ChampionshipAirRaces.For2015AndrewmoreaggressivelypitchedtheStihlmarketeers,and
becausethefitbetweenRenoracefansandStihl’spremiumpowerequipmentwasstrong,they
optedformajorsponsorshipontheLegacy.ItworkedsowelltheLancairwasfrontandcenter
inamajorStihltelevisioncampaignandthesponsorshipiscontinuing.Theplanewasalsoabig
hitduringliveappearancesforStihldealers,whichhelpedconvinceStihltobringJMAssociates
totheairraces,resultingintheone-hourNBCSportsvideoairedinearly2016.Thecoverage,in
turn,wasgreatexposurefortheairracesandExperimentalaviationingeneral.
WhileStihlhasmadeamajorcommitmenttoairracing,it’simportanttorealizeStihl’s
effortismainlydirectedatcorporatehospitalityandpromotionaleffortssuchastheNBC
Sportsfootage;underwritingtheraceplaneexpensesissecondary.AlthoughStihlremains
thetitlesponsor,OneMomentRacingremainsmainlyfundedbyAndrewandwhatever
helpheearnswithMcCauley,Turbonetics,andothersponsors.Abornracer,Andrewenjoys
supportinghissponsors,travelingnationwideduringtheyearonhisownnickeltoattend
engineeringmeetings,presentatseminars,ormakepublicappearances.“We’vecreateda
monster…awholeindustryisbehindus,”hesays.“It’ssocool!”
—T.W.
CuttingitwithStihl
4. intake air. The plumbing is hugely sim-
plified as well, and an often overlooked
benefit is the water’s mass impacts the
turbocharger’s turbine harder, resulting
in a couple pounds more boost pressure.
The downside to ADI is the increased
weight of five gallons of 50/50 water/
methanol mix—most of which is
pumped overboard via the exhaust pipes
during the race anyway—along with
managing the ADI flow relative to the
engine’s needs.
“Still,it’sworthit.”AsAndrewpoints
out, a stock Legacy’s charge cooling is
designed to chill 140 to 150°F charge
air during extended cruising. This is a
minimal requirement not in line with
the burly temperatures and air volume
while racing. “Typically discharge tem-
perature is 350°F out of the turbo, and
the ADI takes that to 130°F,” notes
Andrew of his race settings. He uses
180°F as the inlet temperature redline.
During cruise inlet temps are just 130°F
and no ADI is used.
An easy way to tune the ADI meter-
ing is to “flow the ADI at 15 to 20% of
the fuel flow, then adjust the ADI to the
CHTs and engine response,” Andrew
advises. His self-developed ADI system
uses a stand-alone computer control-
ler from automotive aftermarket tuner
AEMtometerADIflowbasedonintake
manifold pressure. It begins ADI flow at
5 psi of boost—that’s about 40 inches
manifold pressure at Reno’s 5000-foot
KITPLANES September 2016 17
ADI—which is critical to the Continental’s health at race power—is normally managed by
an AEM controller signaled by this manifold pressure sensor and its mate on the other side
of the engine. Should this system fail Andrew can switch on a separate backup pump—
which he must remember to switch off when pulling the throttle back or risk drowning the
engine. The ADI is injected at the back of the intake plumbing, giving it about four feet of
manifolding to vaporize in. Two nozzles—one large, one small—are fitted to each turbo
discharge pipe; four nozzles are used to give finer ADI tuning capabilities.
Each cylinder has its own spray bar mister. They emit 1 gph each and are principle in keeping
CHTs between 400 and 420°F while pulling 600+ hp during a race. Even with spray water the
CHTs climb if the A/F ratio leans below a rather fat 10:1. So do the TITs. One Moment finds
their target CHT temps important in avoiding cylinder-to-head integrity issues.
7. turbos from over-boosting and sending
the EGTs past 1800°F and the pistons
melting out the exhaust pipes.
Most of the Sport Class at Reno runs
a Hartzell race prop, but looking for
the next step ahead, and with an estab-
lished relationship with McCauley,
One Moment Racing has been working
with the McCauley Blackworks team
to develop a new high-speed constant
speed. This was born of necessity as an
engine failure sheared off the old prop
somewhereoverUtahat17,000feet—on
Andrew’sbirthdaynoless.ThatwasJune
20, 2015, and after a successful 28-mile
glide to Wendover, Andrew was talk-
ing with McCauley, who really stepped
up to the plate. As Robert Rucker, busi-
ness leader at McCauley Propeller Sys-
tems put it, “The team started designing
the propeller in July of 2015 and in less
than a month, the custom race propeller
was finalized and rolling down the pro-
duction line.” That’s amazingly fast to
design and build a prototype prop, and
so far it’s proven efficient, quiet, and not
fully tested as One Moment was fighting
fuel issues at the 2015 races and wasn’t
making design power.
TheChallenges
If Andrew and team were playing catch-
up in 2015— it wasn’t until two weeks
before Reno in September that the new
engine and prop were on the plane and
ready to fly—then it’s understandable
that 2016 will mainly see refinement of
last year’s hardware.
For the 2016 races One Moment is
continuing with the Continental fuel
system augmented by a larger fuel pump
and increased automation, likely of a
mechanical fuel control nature.
This latter point is to help with a
major issue: transient engine response
during race starts where the power must
rise rapidly from cruise to full-throttle.
With the ignition and fuel systems com-
pletely segregated and almost wholly
manuallyadjusted,thismeansAndrewis
juggling the throttle, propeller, mixture,
wastegates, ADI, spray bar and ignition
timing controls. Obviously this is far too
much for a two-handed human hanging
onto a stick to manipulate, especially
when computers do such things so well.
Eventually the team will end up with
an integrated electronic fuel injection
system with the bandwidth to handle
idle to hair-on-fire power settings, but
such improvements require more time
and money to develop than has been
available so far. In the meantime, if you
see the Stihl Lancair lagging at the start
you know why—the few naturally aspi-
rated competitors have hammered the
throttle while Andrew and most of his
turbo competitors are anxiously twist-
ing knobs. If anyone is going to develop
a sophisticated aftermarket single-lever
power control, these guys are it.
That’s why it’s worth keeping an eye
on what racers such as Andrew are up
to. Dusting pylons is likely not your
goal, but the speed and efficiency mods
these racers develop transfer directly to
daily aviation. J
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OneMomentRacingwasbehindtheeightballatRenoin2015,butaquickreviewofthe
majoreventsleadinguptotheracestellswhy.
Winter:LancairflewtoBahamasvacation
May30:AndrewandJackieFairmarried
June17:Pylonracingschool,Reno,Nevada
June20:Enginefreezes,propellerdeparts,Wendover,Utah
Summer:NewTSIO-550sourcedandbuilttoracespecification
September7:NewMcCauleypropellerinstalled
September20:FinishedthirdinSportClassGold,Reno,Nevada
Thenewengineandpropellerweren’tevenontheagendawhen2015began.TheLancair
wasalsofullycoveredinStihlsignagedesignedbyDreamSchemeDesignsandinstalledby
Aircraft Wraps in September. “I don’t know how it all happened, but we have an amazing
team,”saysAndrew.
—T.W.
Busy2015
When 400+ mph is the goal, aerodynamics take on a whole new importance. Custom
fairings, gap seals, and plenty of tape help clean up the airframe, but the flap actuators
remain dragging out in the breeze even though the flaps are taped shut at Reno.
Beringer wheels and brakes are a welcome
upgrade to the One Moment Lancair.
Andrew reports a “nice light touch on the
brakes, very smooth. Now that we have
those, it rolls around easier on the hangar
floor—and they look awesome.” The land-
ing light telltales the Lancair’s dual personal-
ity as racer and sport plane, something that
will eventually change as the class eventually
modifies itself into pure race status.
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