Leslie Huttunen

P.S.  I believe another extremely useful project would be putting together a
fairly complete package of "How to do it" papers / videos on a couple of
configurations, maybe one for a normally aspirated 13B and one for a
turbocharged 13B with a variable pitch prop.  (My personal interest is
either a turbocharged 13B for the BD-4, or perhaps a 20BT for a an Express,
with turbocharging used to increase utility by enabling high altitude, "over
the weather" flight.)  I realize this has been discussed on the user group a
couple of times and the consensus was that there are to many possible
configurations.  However, I would like to suggest that a couple of sample
configurations would be an extremely useful "starting point configuration"
for the talented engineers on the user group, and (more likely) a good final
configuration for many people who 1) aren't engineers, 2) would like to put
the good traits and economics of the Wankel to use on their aircraft, but 3)
are hesitant to start for lack a complete picture of both a reliable
configuration and also a clear path, start to finish, on how they could
accomplish the whole job.

Frankly, I hesitate to offer the above suggestion because I can't do it
myself.  I don't have the time or the expertise.  But perhaps this is a job
that someone who is now putting together a rotary conversion may be willing
to shoulder.

mcosman wrote:

Chris and I also have the full complement of hardware/software to publish
movies for the internet and to DVD.  This is fairly fun stuff to work with
and if there was a desire to make some how-to videos that would certainly be
possible.  I think we're going to put together some videos on our plane.

I am not interested in internet videos. Too much band width required. I would
buy them if they were good and if you had them for sale however.

Paul Lamar
 
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