It could work.  A jet turbine is a rotary engine also.  If you
took the air motor out of my Impact Wrench and then hooked it to
the output of a combustion chamber fed by a supercharger and a
fuel injector, you would have an engine.  The question is
whether or not you would have any power left after you
subtracted the torque needed for the supercharger.

Dennis.

That engine has a snowball's chance in hell of working. It is
just another vane rotary engine. It is not a Wankel engine. A
zillion of them have been tried and failed. The Naval Air
Systems Command must have a bunch of dummies working for it.

Paul Lamar

Dennis Hawkins (n4mwd@amsat.org)

It could work.  A jet turbine is a rotary engine also.  If you
took the air motor out of my Impact Wrench and then hooked it to
the output of a combustion chamber fed by a supercharger and a
fuel injector, you would have an engine.  The question is
whether or not you would have any power left after you
subtracted the torque needed for the supercharger.

Dennis.

It has been tried and failed many times. An air motor does not have to contend
with the pressures and temperatures typically inside an internal combustion engine.

If it was that easy we would all be driving vane engines as the idea
is probably 200 years old.

Paul Lamar
 
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