Dear Mr. Lamar:

I am trying to think in the same lines as your "lightweight two piece
endhousing" made of aluminum.

Here are pictures from your web page:

http://www.rotaryeng.net/2pc-end-house.gif
http://www.rotaryeng.net/two-piece-end-house.jpg

Can we take it a step further?  Can the Wankel rotary engine be
lightened by making some components out of composite materials?

Yes, I have read about the piston "plastic engine" made of Torlon back
in the 1980's.  I want to go beyond that.

ANY composite material, used in places where composite materials would
be most useful:


   * end housings
   * side housings
   * rotors
   * manifolds


Which composite materials would be good for which parts of the rotary
engine?
Why?
Why not?
How do we know?
What do we know that we do not know?

A lighter engine would result in less weight for the airplane to have to
lug around.

What do you think?

Les Nordman :-)



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