If you have a better idea how to do this, don't keep it to yourself,
share it with the rest of the class!

If you DON'T have a better idea, then get out of the way, people are
working here.  We'll send for you when it's safe.

Keith


He is kidding Dave :) Now Keith be nice.

Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

I'm mostly kidding.  I deal with a lot of naysayers in my professional
life, and they all sound the same.  Then when we go out and do what they
say won't work, they never say that they were wrong, they just latch
onto the Next Big Won't-Work.  Sometimes my patience wears thin and I
Throop at them.

I'm not kidding that if he has a better idea, I want to know what it is.
 Let's come up with the most devastating, rumor-killing demo possible.

Keith

Do well in the OSH race.

Paul Lamar

No bucks, no Buck Rogers.  It would cost a lot more to compete than to
do this demo.

Winning would be a victory for the plane, not the engine.  The engine's
performance would be seen as a fluke, a lucky break, and ten minutes
after they "Ooooohhh" and "Ahhhhhh," they will forget that there was a
rotary in the plane.  Before they forget, they will think about all of
the modifications that they're sure had to be done to make the engine
run that long.

Show them something impossible and they'll be thinking about it all
year.  Show them that the impossible was done by an engine yanked out of
a car and not modified, and they'll line up to find out how we did it.
Show them that the same engine (in a handy carrying case we call a
"car") is on ebay or in their local wrecking yard cheaper than anything
else they were thinking of using, and there will be a couple of dozen
people putting 13Bs into their planes in time to be there at next year's
Oshkosh.

If it were practical, I would bring the whole car to the show, yank the
engine out right then and there for the demo.

The only thing which would work better than the spectacular demo would
be to have the O-200 Killer there, or a Wankel engine suitable for
ultralights.

Speaking of which, imagine if we had a 1-rotor 60HP weighing 100 lbs.
That's the end of the 2-stroke Rotaxes and a lot of lives saved.  Two
rotors would give you your O-200 Killer -- and it would also be a 914
Killer.  Show the same engine with three or even four rotors (all you do
is add to the Lifesaver stack) and move into the O-320 and O-360 zones.
Fly those at Oshkosh and you'll be stampeded.

Unfortunately, it's very very expensive to develop a Wankel.  The tools
to build it are not available.  We're stuck reworking existing engines,
and everyone already "knows" all about them.  We have to re-educate
people about what's already out there or nobody will ever build the
dream engines.

Keith



The Rotary Engine NewsLetter. Powered by Linux.
ACRE NL web site. http://www.rotaryeng.net
Copyright 1998-2006 All world wide rights reserved.