This will knock your socks off.  Must reading.

Vertical take off, 200mph, and fifteen patents, extremely  creative.  This is
to be a kit and they talk about alternative engines but have not  included a
Wankel 13b in their commentary at this point.  Will have to get to  them.
This sounds like a new Burt Rutan.

Are there Wankels in helicopters with vertical orientation?

Here are the links

http://www.cartercopters.com/deposit_agreement.html

http://www.cartercopters.com/patents_granted.html

http://www.cartercopters.com/videos/pav_11g_fly_by_with_stats.html

http://www.cartercopters.com/pav_11g_performance_2400_max_speed.html

http://www.cartercopters.com/faq-placing_order.html

Norm


I don't think so :) Been around for ten years. Got a lot of
tax and investment money. NOTHING worked as predicted. Crashed
several times. Just a plain old gyrocopter.

Paul Lamar

I have side with Paul on this one.
We were asked to be the engine suppliers to this project, and after a
trip to Texas and several days worth of review, we declined.
Ten years later, the small todo list we left Mr. Carter (he is a very
convivial and enthusiastic guy) has digressively been shown to be
accurate.
If I remember, number one todo item was:  Get a turbine.

-Reeves Callaway



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