paul
    Have you heard anymore on the Honda engine by any chance?

    Tony

    A Honda is a piston engine. Why would I even want to hear more
    about it? :)
    --
    Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

    What Honda engine?

    Clifton.

    Exactly!

    Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.


Paul & All,
You are making this Honda guy who wishes he could convert to a rotary
feel bad.
Best wishes to all for a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
John Lewis
N501BD

I am just pulling his leg. Tony has been on here for years. If anything
he has a piston aircraft engine in his Long EZ. Tony is tough :)

I think he is referring to the fact that Honda announced a joint venture
with Continental to build a new and better piston aircraft engine a few years
ago. It is now nowhere to be found.

Every few years some engineering naive CEO somewhere thinks he can build a
better piston aircraft engine than Lycoming and Continental using automotive
technology. Bombardier tried it a few years ago and stumbled. Here are some
pictures of it as shown at OSH.

It is a automotive type V6. 210KG 462 pounds for the 300 HP version.

Then there was the Renault Diesel. Packard and Junkers built diesel
aircraft engines in the 1930's. Look around. Do you see any aircraft
diesels around? :)

Then there was the Orenda V8.

Ect.,etc.

Ect.,etc.

I could go on and on.

The truth of the matter is the air cooled aircraft engine as we know it
is going to be hard to beat. The only engine with the potential to
best it is the P-port Wankel due to its superior durability and power to
weight ratio.  It is also better suited to turbo compounding than
piston engines.