I agree it will never fly nor should it. It is something Mazda
should do for car engines.

Hi Paul,
for common sense, please keep the subject on airplanes. We have  already
lost great thinkers on this list because you digress into car issues!
It is Air Craft Rotary Engine ----ACRE
The web is full of car rotary stuff ! We love your Newsletter, but  keep
it on Airplanes!
Vale Mikey, BR Dave McC
Sorry Dave, I don't agree.
We have some engineers on here from Mazda and automotive magazine  editors.
The managing editor of Car & Driver magazine (worlds largest  circulation)
who happened to be my student 35 years ago confronted, me at the
Tokyo Motor Show last year and asked me why I was spending so much  time
and treasure on a dead end engine. He phrased the question like that
as journalist are wont to do to get a rise out of the interviewee  (me).
The rotary is under attack from several quarters. The  environmentalist
are convinced it is a hazard to the environment and the bean counters
see it as marginally profitable. They could care less about the power
to weight ratio and the bean counters see the long life as a
liability.
Mazda needs to keep making them or we would have no low cost, high
power, light weight, long life engines for our aircraft.
If I have an idea I think the Mazda engineers should consider to
improve the rotary I post it for their use. It also sends a signal
to the magazine people that the rotary potential  has been barely
tapped and is not a dead end engine.
Please bear with me and take the long term view.
Whatever I am doing is working as we have had over one million
accesses just this year to the ACRE NL web site. That number
exceeds the number of registered pilots in the US and the
circulation of any single automotive publication.
http://www.rotaryeng.net
Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

Paul:

I'm not interested in "car issues."

It doesn't hurt me in the slightest to have you posting "car issues."

Since it doesn't hurt me, doesn't cost me anything, and no doubt it  DOES
interest other people on the list, you just go ahead and keep doing  it.

I can imagine buying a 2015 car with a hydrogen-powered rotary in it.
Or a 2015 hybrid with an itty-bitty rotary.  I find it hard to imagine
buying a 2015 car with a reciprosaur in it.

Keith

I'm one of those flighty magazine "car" guys.  And I enjoy both the
car and aircraft topics.  But Paul is right.  We gotta keep Mazda
pumped up about the rotary.  Without their development we are
without.  I want a three rotor in a 5 Series killer.  I'm sure it
would also make a great flier.
jd



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