Hi Paul
one of my aircraft owners Andrew Martin has contacted you recently re.
the design of an engine mount, I manufacture a range of light aircraft
under the brand name Australian LightWing in Ballina on the east coast
of Australia (about the middle) my company has been manufacturing light
aircraft for the past 21 years, please have a look at
www.lightwing.com.au.

Andrew is going to build one of our 4 seat aircraft.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, we have a US agent that intends
importing our aircraft and fitting (we will initially fit the engines
here) the  1 cyl Rotamax rotary to our 2 seater and the 2 cyl Rotamax to
our 4 seater.

His company is called Airgyro. What I am looking for is
someone that has fitted one of these engines to preferably an aircraft
to get some feedback on how is the best way to mount them and any
potential problems that may arise. This sort of information is always
going to be best obtained from a hands on person rather than from the
engine supplier. The Rotamax web page seems to have been last updated in
2005 so there is not much there, I believe they had an engine in a bike
at Oshkosh but thats about all I know. If you email your phone number I
will call you to save you waisting time typing. I will only take a few
minits of your time.
Regards
Howie Hughes

Howie, the guys at Airgyro are definitely forward-thinking.  I know most
of them, and I've been to their place (I used to be at the same
airport).  They should be good reps for you here.

They've got a Rotamax 2-rotor in a gyroplane.  I don't know how many
hours they have on it yet.  The Rotamax motorcycle was impressive.

Keith


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