Dirck Hecking wrote:

Amusing Comment from Chris Gries....

OK Paul, so that teaches me that they have a money arrangement with the
recip guys that is so favorable to Diamond, that that money arrangement
killed the better engine. With 400 plus motor glider rotary powerplants
shipped they decided to keep on installing rotary there... This teaches me
that the recip guys, even with their preferred dealing privledge money
arrangement, could not compete in an arena where good science defeats
greed. Sorry, to be SOBlunt here, but the notion that science defeats the
rotary just wont fly!

Dirck Hecking

I had a brief conversation with Chris Gries at OSH owner of Diamond

Aircraft.

Diamond is neck and neck with Sirus on being the second largest
light airplane manufacturer in the world. They are also the distant

second largest

wankel engine builder with over 400 single rotor engines shipped
for motor glider use. Chris said they have no plans to market the
certified two rotor as it is too expensive to produce. You can send him
email and say you will pay $12,000 US and he might change his mind.
He does plan to sell an enlarged 75 HP single rotor version.

Paul Lamar

 
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