Subject: Rotary powered Coot amphib seen at Arlington
From: Paul
Date: 7/20/1999, 6:45 PM
To: zz

Reach over your left shoulder and turn the spigot
on until you break water and clear the trees.

Probably provides close the 300 HP I would guess.
This is probably the reasons the Mazda front needle thrust
bearing went out in the engine as the Ford C6 helical sun
gear butted up against it through the e-shaft.

I will be modifing my drawing of the PSRU to provide
a separate thrust bearing for the Ford C6 planetary
sun helical gear to take these loads.
 
This just goes to show you the abuse the Mazda rotary
engine will endure.

Paul Lamar
 
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