This is a great thing you are doing Paul.  Sure hope the folks who use your reference materials fully appreciate them.  It is just outstanding. For the better part of fifteen years Everett and I didn't have such a nice consolidation of references and other information available.  Pretty much had to do it on our own out in that bean field and in library's, letters, etc. in the pre-Google era.

So to see you serve up to them so much information, well it is just terrific what you are doing to help keep the spirit of rotary aircraft engines going.  Still have most of our technical library and

a good portion of our technical files, dyno sheets and other references including all of the photographs and transparencies taken of all our projects.  The detailed photographs are helping a lot.  And we still have the aircraft engine dyno that we built to test Lycoming and rotary engines (with test club).  Am finally able to think about rotary issues again, ten years later. For a long time, it

was just too painful.  But good to get parts in hand and get going again.  Hope to make some noise on the dyno later in the year.  Are you healthy and happy?

Steve Beckham


Thanks for the complements Steve.  I try to do the best I can.
Fairly healthy and fairly happy for 72 :) If you would scan some of those old photos I am sure our readers would love to see them. You two guys were the real aircraft rotary engine pioneers. We got some guys in the North West that would love to borrow that dyno.

Perry Mick is in McMinnville. You should stop in and visit.
He now has over 600 hours I think. Ken Welter near Portland also has a bunch of hours in a rotary powered Coot. Lots of fun going flying with Ken :)

Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

Steve gave me a tour of his hangar and rotary stuff about a year ago.

I occasionally fly to Mulino for breakfast, and then fly over Steve's house on the way back to McMinnville via the Willamette River. I don't

think he's spotted me yet though.

I don't do the low buzz thing so I'm usually 1000 feet AGL.

Perry
675 hours

Thanks Paul.  Perry is a very sharp guy.  Am very impressed by his work.
Don't have his email address.  If you correspond with him I need his
advice on building the ram "J" tubes out of carbon to save weight.  My
pea brain can't figure out how to do it correctly.  We have grass field
so he probably can't fly in.  But can meet him in Mulino for breakfast.
Regarding dyno--when we get the dyno up and running we would like to
offer it as a service to folks.  Should do a lot for flight safety and
getting us some good solid numbers.  When I can figure it all out again
and won't be embarrassed, you ought to come down when we are it up and
testing.


Steve Beckman

Hi Steve... When you get the Dyno running, I'd love to get my engine on
it some time.  13B T04... Would be nice to run it and get the EC2
working before I mount it on the plane... Also would help see some
numbers before making a prop selection.  I'm in Everett WA are you in
Oregon?

Mike C

Steve, is this the dyno?