Ed Anderson wrote:

Hi Paul,
    Here is message I got from Ray Richardson of Powersport.  Looks like he
has dry sumps for those interested.

Ed Anderson

Dear Ed Anderson, and friends;

Ed congrations on your award, You have worked many
hours as one of the early users of the rotary engine.
and have done much, to show the engines adaptibily.

Also thank-you for your positive coments about Powersport.

For those who wish to fly upside down,  Powersport has
just finished building dry sump pumps for the 2 rotor and 3 rotor engines.

This system replaces the front cover ( rear of our aircraft engine)
and will allow the engine to run inverted, or at any attitude.

20  of the 3 rotor systems are sold to Mazda car racers.
We have 6 remaining systems for 3 rotors and 12 for 2 rotor engines
This system has 2 scavenge pumps and 1 pressure pump all internally
gear driven from the E shaft.

Powersport is now testing its reduction drive for torsional vibration
this time on a customers turbo charged 20B  3 rotor engine on May 4th.

Dave Atkins built this custormers engine and had it dino
tested at 376 hp. The engine will be installed on a
Lancair 4 pressurized.

At the conclusion of these tests we will know if the combined
3 rotor engine, our reduction drive and prop is safe to be used together
on aircraft.  We have prevously conducted these tests of our
reduction drive on the 2 rotor engine.

For details of what this test intales, click on our web site
www.powersportaviation.com
and click on testing.

Note our reduction drive does offset the prop 2" higher
resulting in added prop ground clearance without rotating the
engine.

Fly safe
Ray Richardson Jr.

 
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