Correction on the Wankel connection -- only one RPI engine was a "repackaged"
Wankel -- the Hunter engine (for which I was the Chief Engineer). We pushed
the engine way farther than its design point, and so naturally flushed out a
few weaknesses that we were working to incorporate into an all new design.
The new design was about 80% finished when the Hunter contract was terminated.

The engine in the picture was indeed a wooden mock-up of an aviation engine,
however the basic power section was run for many thousands of hours in many
configurations including single and twin rotor versions. Individual engines
with the same power section as shown in the picture were run in generator
sets, boats and even tractors.

Jon Lauter
Rotary Power Marine Corporation
www.rotarymarine.com

What is really interesting is the spring clutch disk in the planetary PSRU.
Just like a ROSS except it is on the wrong side of the gear :-)

Paul Lamar


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