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Vance and Emily Jaqua wrote:

On Mon, 05 Jul 1999 08:23:50   Paul wrote:

Thanks for the Moller stuff.  It's guys like that who give rotary aircraft
such an upstanding reputation. DS

No pi in the sky here he is just ten or twenty  years ahead of his time.
It will work any day now. Car usage is growing faster than road networks
and parking places. Airline travel sucks. Biz jet sales are exploading.

In the mean time he is selling bridge inspection flying ducted fans and
UAV flying ducted fans with rotary engines. Both valid applications of
high power to weight ratio aircraft rotary engines.

Dr. Moller is also the inventor and owner of Super Trap mufflers.

Paul Lamar

Paul - Is the Moller engine derived from the old
OMC outboard? Vance

Yes I think the one rotor version was. Moller bought all the 
tooling and rights. Jeff Spitzer totally re-designed
the engine for high temp (300F) Propylene(SP?) Glycol cooling and and 
twin rotors. Twa's not eazy. The power went to 150 HP from about 50 HP.

Paul Lamar
 
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