Royce Wise wrote:

Here is a link to some tech papers written by Kenichi Yamamoto

http://asmic.com/rotary/ee_deve1.htm

Kinda interesting to read if anyone is interested.

Royce

NetScape could not find it at first and then when I backed down
to http://asmic.com/ I had the same problem I had with
Jon's Rotary Power Marine web site. Too bad. Can you
screen capture some of the pages and send them to us?

Paul Lamar

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This is the first page, Paul.

Alfonso Lebron-Berges

The Development of The Rotary Engine

                                                             Spirits of
The Engineer

Last Updated on May 21,1996

                                                 The photos we show here
are belong to "The Rotary Graffiti 1967-1987".
                                                           All the
documents are written by Kenichi Yamamoto.

       "I will let you work on only rotary engine from now on. I want
you to go NSU company in the West Germany and look hard."

       Kouji Matsuda who was the president and who passed away said to
me.
       At that time I was a vice director of the design section. It was
August 1962.

       I felt complicated feeling for a moment because my name was on
the rotary engine development organization, and I was almost taking a
role of observer and I knew the disadvantages of it, which
       are the like a crazy horse vibration at low revolution although
high speed power's greatness was acknowledged, and you couldn't say it
has durability after seeing it got scratches all over inside
       of housing by charter mark.

       From that moment I prepared this would be my life work and I
started to get into the development of the rotary engine for more than
10 years.
       Although I remember very well the feeling I had when I stepped
into the unknown world based on faith and pride of an engineer and I was
suffering and let down because it was a challenge of the
       unknown but I don't know how to put that in the words.

       There are many excellent engineers around me. They sometimes
agree with me and sometimes disagree with me. They tried to find the
way. I think they were totally crazy about the rotary
       engine which was their object to work on. I think that is why
they could dig into the development of the engine which was criticized
by the common people in the engineering industry that is
       impossible to make it for practical use.

       I was helped by many young engineer's great idea and ardor. There
was a dream.
       There was a dream which was to make true by their own hands. The
dream was almost the engineers' obsession.

       That was a drama, I think so now.
       That was a drama of the human who conquered the suffer and tried
to achieve the way to live. There wouldn't be any completion if there
were no such people who has spirits and were so into it.

       I can't forget those days when I had reason for living every day
and seeking what is worth for myself.
       I think this is a truly the spirits of an engineer and the bottom
line of creation.

 
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