Douglas Fir wrote:

Paul

Perhaps it would be best to  clarify on ACRE that the CVT-TC will

first be

tested on the ground throughly before flying it:) Seawind company is
already
threatening to cut off technical support for me because I don't want

to use

the recommended Lycoming IO 540.   Testing for me means at  least 100

hours

of real run time and hundreds of tests.

After the turbo compound project is finished and verified a success I

will

start with heavy fuel testing. I can't realistically get the SeaWind

in the

air before 2007.  So perhaps you will be flying the compound system

before

me:)

It was good speaking with you today.  As an afterthought I highly

recommend

having your rotary aircraft engine display at Seven Stocks. If you can

put

together a short concise one page report about the  superiority of the
rotary engine and  how it is suitable for aircraft then I'll translate

it

print out some copies and get it right  back to you.  Mention Bucky

Fuller's

thoughts, that technology that moves faster often develops faster.

Other

sheets can profile some of the ACRE members. In other words put a
professional face on our organization.

I can help fine tune it and translate it into Japanese and print out

some

copies of an information kit.  I will give one to the VP when he is at

my

place on Sept. 11 and 12 and you can give them to any Japanese

executives

that are bound to be there.  Needed are picture of David and his plane,

one

with the cowl off, one of Tracy's plane with the Renesis engine showing,

his

development of the EC-2 and PSRU, and other challenges that we have

faced

and overcome.  introduction of our compound turbo project. Mention of
Mistral, Powersport and Diamond is also good so they know rotaries are

being

developed seriously and professionally.

Perhaps no time for a multi-media presentation but it would be good to

give

a little speech thanking Mazda for their hard work in making such a

good

product. In public for all to hear we need to  invite them to

participate in

our discussions and research. They may only nod there head but the

formal

offer is made. At minimal they will thank you for the info. package.

This

shows a genuine approach on our part.

In other words we are promoting the application where the rotary really
does zoom.  Aircraft.  Nice TV commercial image is a rotary doing a low

pass

over a RX-8 going down the runway.  Put in on a DVD.  Paul you have a

black

car which is perfect.  You have lots of wide open desert or old airport
runways  some rotary powered aircraft with willing pilots.

Picture this  Low camera angle near the ground.  The car approaches in

the

shimmering heat.  The plane comes into view from camera right and makes

it

approach over the car and out of the frame seconds before the car. NICE

film

them separate or together. "Narrator's voice,  "The Rotary ... for

people

who expect more from an engine"
To test fly an RX-8 contact your nearest Mazda dealer.

We have about a  a 10 days to prepare. How can other members assist?

The

info kit needs to be in a nice jacket folder that opens up with pockets

on

each side. Do we have anyone that make up about 12 sets? Other info?

Desk

top publisher?

Best regards

Doug

My RX8 is silver.
Great ideas Doug. I don't think I can get this together for Seven Stock

but

next year at OSH and SnF and of course Tracy's flyin.

Dave Leonard are you up for it? All we need is a video camera. I don't
think mine is still working.  We need you over here as a director Doug.

We can

send a
copy to Mazda Japan if not Mazda USA. I think they would get a big kick

out of

it.

I know.... El Mirage dry lake during the week is almost deserted.
What about it Dave? I'll have to drive out and check it out to see if
it is still as I remembered.

Paul Lamar

Ok Paul

Early November.  If Dave doesn't have a camera I can borrow one from over
here.  Surely someone must have a camera in this country.

Doug in Japan

Well I am looking into it. I am not sure my new laptop computer can
take video in from our old 8mm camera and burn a DVD. I think it can.
The other possibility is to rent a DVD camera as we rarely shoot video.

Robin and I are thinking of driving out to inspect the surface of El
Mirage's
suitability for landing an RV6. If we do Robin's still camera can shoot
short
video clips so we can do that and upload that here so Dave can see the
surface
in case he needs to land. El Mirage airport itself has been bought by
General Atomics Aviation Division and used for testing the Predator.

That could also be used as an emergency landing field particularly if I warn
the rotor head  Predator project engineer Jeff Spitzer that we will be
in the area shooting a ground air commercial:)

Paul Lamar

Paul,
Are you sure about El Mirage dry lake being deserted on the weekends?  When I
used to ride out there, we avoided that place because of the many different
types of hobbists using it... land sailers, dune buggies, motorcycles, etc.  I
would guess that it would be much more deserted on a weekday.

Mark S.

Did I say weekends? I meant during the week.

Paul Lamar
 
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