To Bill Jepson: Yes, we shall most probably sell our planetary reductor

drive separately to private rotary engine owners.  We'll be taking
orders for both the whole engines and for the drive soon,

hopefully

already at Sun'n Fun.

Francois,
 Fantastic news. The more successful flying rotarys the better! I

really wish you well, as a mechanical engineer

I really like your purpose built Planetary. The slow speed isn't a

problem for me I'm building an RV-10 and would prefer to swing a large
prop. The ability to use a standard constant speed prop is one the things
that has me hanging back on Tracy's unit. Tracys design is fine, but the
RV-10 will

need a C/S and I don't want to spend as much as my plane
on a electric! I'm running a 20B by the way but normally aspirated and

limited to 260 hp the max allowed for the RV. What is your reduction
ratio Francois? We rotor heads want your certification efforts to succeed
since it will bring acceptance to rotary power. Do you have any rough
pricing for the engines yet? Non certified would be fine for the homebuilder.

Many Thanks for your Efforts!,
Bill Jepson

doug ritter wrote:

Francois - I agree on the name "RotaryAir" even though it wasn't on your
original list and on the aspect of having certified rotary's on the market
to satisfy our insurance companies.  Non certified to us home builders (at
reduced coast) before certification is very desirable.  I also like the
design and configuration of your prop reduction gearbox - would it work on
a turbine such as the Allison 250 C18?

I'll be at Sun-n-Fun shooting video for work (NASA-TV) and will be looking
up all you Rotary people.

Doug Ritter
NASA-TV
On-Air Operations
NASA Headquarters, Code PM3
300 E St, SW
Washington, DC 20546-0001
202-358-0025

Check the rotary engine workshop tent across the street from the forums
tents. We will be there every day after 2 PM. 

BTW if anybody wants to display their wares and you cannot afford a booth
this is the place to do it. I am an official volunteer so I can help
arrange things.

Paul Lamar

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