Paul wrote:

BTW Mark what do you hear from Diamond aircraft on the purchase
of the Midwest Rotary engine ? I am pretty excited about this development.

Paul Lamar

Nothing much so far. I heard Diamond is building a extra building for this
engine production. I haven't been to Wiener Neustadt for a while. Normally
we do Pinks (www.pink.at) annual in one of diamonds hangars, but that is not
till december.

I find it a bt strange. The supposed reason Diamond bought the mid west, was
because Rotax/Bombardier is ceasing aero engine production, but then Rotax
announces this new 200Hp six cylinder?

Diamond is a fast growing company. You may not like their planes (I don't),
but they are surely selling well.

My second Daughter was born last week, so I have been rather inactive on the
best practises site for while. It's not forgotten though. I just achive the
discussions which I'll need to summarize article on. My friend who will be
hosting Wrathall.com and Wankel.org for me just got married and between the
two of us, get the web servers set up has not been a priority.

I did get the mechanics of my CNC mini-lathe conversion finished though, so
just have to wire it up and add end/home switches , spindle encoder etc.

Reagrds,
Mark Wrathall
http://members.aon.at/wrathall/rotary/

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