Archie wrote:

How about this with a rotary?   Archie

Beautiful, but are they smart enough ?

BTW Paul, J.C. Whitney has 6 port motorized selector
valves for $55.00 ~  Virg

Jon Sharp is aware of the rotary but Continental is giving them all the 
engines they want. He is going to be selling kits so an off the shelf
engine like the Cont. TSIO 550 makes more sense at this time. Perhaps
when someone blows them off with a 900 HP turbo three rotor and PT6 gear
box they will change their mind. When and if that happens on the other
hand the Reno organizers will probably ban the rotary as most other
kinds of auto racing organization have done already. Unfair to piston engines.
No silly pistons and valves jerking up and down and back and forth.

Experimental airplanes organizations on the other hand have no real reason 
to ban the rotary. Once the rotary becomes far more common it will be more 
difficult for the aircraft racing organizations to justify banning it.

Paul Lamar
 
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