Paul
Your comments on a rotary package to replace the
turbine in the legend was
very intriguing.  What will the turbine Legend
really do?
And what does it appear to take to do it ? I do not
Know if any were flown
wit V8s to compare.

Incidently equal speeds are in ,And my old friend
Parker squeezed past
Greenameyer at 361 and the both beat out the NXTs

Vance

Glad to see you are up and about Vance. I was going
to go to Reno but changed my
mind. What does Parker fly? I also take it Jim
Wright is flying his NXT.
The Legend was originally designed for the Chevy big
block. It flew for
awhile but the cooling passages in the heads, among
other things, were not up to it. The designer, Jeff Auckland and I had a long talk
about it at Copper State a few years ago. He gave up and put a turbine in it.

I was at this Symposium below. I talked to the
engineers at Orenda there about their failed $50 million dollar effort to get the Chev big
block to work. They told me they would kill their grandmothers for 1/4 inch more bore
spacing so they could put real aircraft engine style fillets in the main and rod
journals :)

Paul Lamar

snips....

Paul

What book is Taycrank.jpg from?
I need to read the rest of that chapter.

Erik

http://www.rotaryeng.net/books10.txt

* For those of you with an engineering degree or equivalent Taylor's
series of books is the best there is. The bible of engine design.

The Internal Combustion Engine in Theory and Practice.

Volume 1: Thermodynamics, Fluid Flow, Performance. Second Edition
Revised.

Volume 2: Combustion, Fuels, Materials, Design. Revised. Charles
Fayette Taylor. The MIT Press Cambridge Massachusetts, and London
England.

Paul Lamar

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