{"id":23,"date":"2008-12-30T16:46:36","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T21:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dieselrc.com\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2008-12-30T16:46:36","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T21:46:36","slug":"winter-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dieselrc.com\/blog\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"Winter is here."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winter has overtaken Chicagoland in a big way. It&#8217;s unusual to experience this much snow and cold, then get a rainstorm and warm temps to wash away almost all of the 10+&#8221; of snow on the ground. There were even tornado watches. So as winter makes it hard to fly much, I&#8217;ve been working on some projects in the shop. I&#8217;m working on a small engine <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Wikipedia Dynamometer\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dynamometer\">dynamometer<\/a>. It&#8217;s fairly complicated and I&#8217;m still gathering parts. I will be able to measure airflow, fuel flow, rpm, torque, cylinder head temperature, exhaust gas temperature, intake temperature, and hopefully combustion chamber pressure. I&#8217;m doing an spark ignition conversion of a <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Magnum XL-91 RFS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hobbypeople.net\/gallery\/210970.asp\">Magnum XL-91 RFS<\/a> for a friend. The engine has hundreds of hours on it and is getting new bearings, new piston, and new ring in the process. I have an interesting project involving a Cox .049 in the next month or so. I continue to work on the FS-91 diesel conversion. I&#8217;m setting up an airplane for it and hope to fly it in January, if weather allows. The airframe will carry data aquisition equipment to relay in-flight information about the engine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter has overtaken Chicagoland in a big way. It&#8217;s unusual to experience this much snow and cold, then get a rainstorm and warm temps to wash away almost all of the 10+&#8221; of snow on the ground. There were even tornado watches. So as winter makes it hard to fly much, I&#8217;ve been working on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90052,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dieselrc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dieselrc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dieselrc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dieselrc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/90052"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dieselrc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dieselrc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dieselrc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dieselrc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dieselrc.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}