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Mike Wills wrote:

At 08:49 AM 10/12/1999 -0700, you wrote:

Nothing really Roger I am just kidding around a little bit.
This is the second year in a row that Dave was scheduled
to give a talk at Copper State and he did not make
it because of bad weather in the Great North Wet.
This year I was pressed into service to give a talk
on the rotary in his place. I did not really mind but
I am not totally qualified as I have yet to complete
and fly a rotary powered airplane.

Paul Lamar

Paul,

 Did you attend the forum by Frank Verbeke on sunday?. 

It was so hot I got the heck out of there and went back to cool LA.

He runs
Alturair/Alturdyne. Alturair supplies BD5 parts. Alturdyne is developing an
all aluminum rotary based on 13B parts. Their first goal is a 1 rotor 100hp
engine for their BD5 customers with a 2 rotor to follow. They have the 1
rotor running in a test cell and have also sold some for stationary power
applications.
 They are based here in San Diego and invited me to come over and see their
stuff as well as seeing the 1 rotor run. I'll try to get over there soon
and report back.

Please take your camera with you.

 When he presented a couple of years ago he sounded like just another snake
oil salesman looking for investors but it now sounds like they are much
closer to a deliverable engine.

Mike Wills

Mazda based one rotor engines are no big deal. There is a company in 
Florida that sells them for generators and
boats.http://www.onerotor.com/

I wonder why it has taken them so long? Even aluminum end housings are 
off the shelf from Racing Beat.

Paul Lamar
 
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