"Philippe.chenevier" wrote:

A few things I know about these people:
-It all started with the Norton motorcycle company, who tried to make a
wankel matorcycle. They marketed a few of them. I went to their factory
around 1981 or 82 and saw a prototype of this byke. It was very impressive.
-Then, the engine design was passed to Midwest engines who marketed it until
they reached another arrangement

- Midwest would sell engines for the manned aircraft application and UAV for
the drones. Both are based on the same design and probably UAV engines is
purchasing castings and major engine parts from Midwest. So normally, UAV
should refuse to sell to manned aircraft manufacturers.
- Finally, the Midwest company has been purchased by Diamond aircraft in
Austria. You can visit their website.

- The Midwest engine is installed on some aircraft designs, such as the Stem
10, a high performance motorglider, and a prototype of the Europa.

So this thing is real ! Even though it is not American or coming from Mazda.
The main drawback is that it is expensive, since it does not benefit from the
massive production of automobile engines. Even for Mazda's rather low number
of car production, it is 10 or 100 times more than Midwest.

That's all folks.

Ph Chenevier
TOULOUSE, France

 
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