Steve Beckham,

Thanks for your contribution to this discussion, and all the
development you and Everett did.  His loss was a great one.

Memorial Day weekend 1978, you pitted your MGB next to me at Seattle
International Raceway.  I was working with Ralph Young on Mike
Fisher's March Formula B (Atlantic).

When the MGB fired up I had to leave my work and see what it was, it
sounded like a loud and nasty rotary.  BRAAP BRAAP BRAAP.  I suppose
it was just a year or 2 later that we ended up with mufflers on
everything.

Cheers,

Mark Morland
Castro Valley, CA

Thanks Mark.  You made me smile and brought back some great memories.  That
MGB is actually related to all the rotary stuff.  When I sold the race car
Everett ask me what we were going to do.  We decided to go Trans Am racing
and just starting to build me a Trans Am Corvette when we decided to take a
break and load up the Twin Commanche and fly to Oshkosh where we happened
upon the NASA exhibit with their rotary engine.  That is what got us
thinking about doing a rotary aircraft engine when we got home.
Steve Beckham

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