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.

-- 
Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

Paul,
Come on.  It's Christmas.  It's your Civic duty to help with this
request about a Honda engine.  You will feel much more Accord with
the world if you do.  On the other hand, you might be totally out of
your Element.
John Dinkel


I don't have an Element and there is no Accord in my drive way.
(First come first parked). My travels have been an Odyssey.

Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas to one and all.

Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

Paul,
I am delighted to hear that your travels have big [been] one big Odyssey.  I
wouldn't want people to get the idea that you are a stupid Illiad [Iliad]
sitting Homer lone during Christmas.
Chris Krinkle [Kringle]
[AKA jd]

Telemachus lives near by and Penelope is working but will be off
for the first time in five years tomorrow night. Suzzy has her
brothers and sisters.

Paul Lamar

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