Hey Marco - I live in Golden, Colorado USA and am planning
on building this plane http://www.ligeti-stratos.com
I have scaled it up from 78 sq ft to 110 sq ft and am
planning to use this engine
http://www.woelfle-engineering.com/ at 50 hp.  It is a
racing kart engine that was used in a turboed version in
2007 to set the world powered paraglider altitude record
flying over Mt Everest

http://www.gknmissioneverest.com/missioneverest/themissioneverestparamotor1.asp

and http://www.gknmissioneverest.com/

There is now an American made wankel engine that is
available in single rotor 65 hp and dual rotor 130 hp and
turbo 180 hp here http://www.rotamax.net.  These are very
light engines.  I'm interested in one for my Europa
kitplane.  Hope this helps - good luck!


Glenn Crowder

Dear Glenn

thank you for the links, i will enquiry on the
"affordability" of rotamax (even if the 65 is a bit small
and the 130 is overrated for my application) and know more
on the go-kart woelfle engines, this latter is good to know
for thinking on other projects but really too small for my
application.

concerning the Ligeti Stratos, it is a very interesting
policy they have done with their "open source" thing.
concerning the machine, it is really a piece of elegance! by
the way, why are you increasing the surface? are you
planning to make it a twin seater? other tweaks? i'm
curious.
i read about its flight control technique, one can have some
fun with it :-)

thank you again for the links

mrk

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Glenn,

This plane looks like a good candidate to go thin film PV or PV battery
electric.  Check out what Sonex has done with their electric plane.

Doug in Japan

Doug, I mailed your other pump today.

Paul Lamar