. They are considered a 'ronin' company. Ronin are
master less samaraii. These companies like SONY and HONDA are free of
all
the intertwining government and banking staff in house.
I'll be very oblige with talk about rotaries in aircraft.
Doug in Japan
Doug,
Your in the right place mate, and talking to the right people!
What do you do over there ?
When discussing things with your Mazda contact please ask about those
rumours of a 15 B for release in 2006 and the 2 Litre development. Also ask
about the rumour of the smaller side ported 10 A.
Even if their only rumours it may plant some seeds of interest in doing some
of these things.
George (down under)
BTW I forgot to mention this Doug. An RX8 with 30 MPG in the EPA highway
driving cycle would make a monumental impact in the automotive world.
Currently the RX8 is rated at 25 MPG. 20% better would put it over
the magic 30 MPG. The shock wave would be heard in every major auto
manufacturers board room. A 20% improvement in fuel consumption
is totally unheard of in the automotive industry.
Automotive engineers would sell their grandmothers for only a 2% improvement.
This would be easy to achieve with 60 year old turbo compound technology.
Here is a brief description of the very first experimental turbo compound
engine from the book Vee's For Victory.
You might want to give a copy of this to your contact.
Paul Lamar
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Vee 's for Victory
E-27: In many ways this was a very unique engine, and way ahead of its time.
This was the first turbo-compound, or "power feedback" engine built by any
manufacturer. Based on the E-22 power section with Auxiliary Stage
Supercharger, it added a General Electric CT-l power turbine, driving the
crankshaft through 5.953: 1 gears. Allison built a mockup of the
configura-tion in September 1944, followed by a series of component tests,
including a complete compound engine development series run in June 1945.
The first complete engine was produced in September 1945.49 The turbine was
adapted from the CH-5 turbosupercharger and driven by exhaust gasses
collected by P-38 type collector manifolds. Compression ratio was reduced to
6.00:1 to accommodate very high manifold pressures up to 100 inHgA,
consequently Grade 115/145 was specified. The 12-counterweight crank-shaft
was used allowing ratings at up to 3200 rpm. The engine was in-tended for
the Bell XP-63H, where it would have been able to deliver a WER rating of
2980 bhp at up to 11,000 feet from 100 inHgA, using ADI injection.
Considerable running of related components and complete en-gines was
accomplished during 1944/45. The engine was able to demon-strate a 19%
improvement in cruise specific fuel consumption due to the contribution of
the power turbine. The aircraft never flew because the tur-bine was limited
to inlet exhaust gas temperatures of 1725 of, and at ful: power this
temperature could be easily exceeded. As a consequence, Allison undertook
a project of their own to design and develop a suitable power turbine with
air-cooled blades, though that occurred only after the V-17 I 0-127(E27)
project was canceled.
