Big cut!

Moller Industries(Moller Air Car)uses custom

rotary

engines(eight of them)to power it's aircar,

and other

UAV products.

Tim

How interresting!
I was just reading that a rotary producing 200 HP

will burn about 20

gph.
That would be a lot of fuel burn on takeoff for

the Moller aircar!

Rino

Yea, supposedly these rotaries are tiny in comparison
to the Mazda......they have all the info on their
website. I'm not sure about the burn rate on Mazda
turbo's, but Tracy told me during our flight that his
165HP 13B with Mikuni's was getting
~5-8GPH........Tracy, can you confirm?

Tim

Tracy Crook wrote:

True Tim, this is the typical range of fuel flow that I use, BUT -
When a pilot (including me) states that his engine burns X GPH in cruise, it
means precisely *Nothing*.
Unless that figure is accompanied by RPM and manifold pressure, it is not
useful for anything other than interesting trivia.
My in-flight fuel burn can be anything from 3 to 20 GPH.  Just depends on
where I set the throttle and mixture.

Tracy

 
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