Jim Brewer wrote:

Paul,
I'm not an engineer so help me out here.  I get some junk mail from an
Army-Navy surplus type that sells guns, parts and books.  One of the manuals
they sell is a study done on the fabrication of silencers for guns by some
government arsenal.

Now my question; How does the detonation of a gun and the detonation of an
engine differ other than in the sound wave speed and frequency?  If one can
silence a gun can't we do the the same with the rotary?   Do you think any
of the techniques of gun silencers would be applicable to silencing of our
Mazda rotaries?  Wasn't some Detroit grad student on the list going to help
us make the rotary purr like a kitten?

Jim Brewer
Albemarle, NC

There are some similarities that's for sure.

Paul Lamar
 
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