My Air & Space story about car engines said nothing about Orenda

failing.  What it said is that making aircraft engines out of car engines
was then and still

is a criminally dumb idea.  You may quote me.

ds

I hope Don Sherman doesn't include rotary engines in this blanket

statement.

Perry

I don't think he is that dumb. I am sticking up for you Don :)

Paul Lamar

I'm not saying that! We do have many thousands of hours now to refute any
rotary sceptics. I have Air & Space going back many years, can you narrow
down the date of the issue the article appeared in, so I can locate it?

Perry

* Smithsonian Air & Space magazine article "Power Struggle" by Don 
Sherman, January 1997, page 72. Excellent ten page  article (with 
many pictures) about auto engines in airplanes. A brief history of 
all auto engines in airplanes and a more detailed history of the 
twenty year, twenty million dollar  development of the Chevy V8 
based, all aluminum Orenda liquid cooled aircraft engine. At this 
time (Jan 1997) and well after the article was written the engine 
failed its FAA 150 hour full power certification test due to a 
crankshaft problem after 20 years of very expensive development. 
It was finally certified in 1998 by Transport Canada.
Orenda went bankrupt last year.

Paul Lamar
 
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