Well as long as you start with 50 million dollars building
your own Wankel should be no problem. You know what they say
about aviation. "If you want to make a small fortune start with a
large one" :)
Paul Lamar
Oh yes, that is one very famous quote in auto racing. My personal
favorite is "I know there's money in racing, I put it there." Back to
the subject, $50 million we do not have, and if we did, that large sum
would be going into certification. Granted, we may be fools for putting
so much time and money into a project with such a poor history, however,
we are still willing to go forward with our plans of making an aviation
rotary engine despite the great opposition involved with such an
undertaking.
I am not here to start an argument about what we can or cannot do,
merely collecting advice and opinions of other aviators to help
increase our chances of success.
Vladimir
You will forgive us because we have seen it all before.
Keep quiet and produce the goods.
Just hang in here awhile and you will learn all you need to know.
Paul Lamar
i would like to join in on this conversation. hi im vladimir's partner.
i've seen and studied many a patents that seem like great ideas but where
are they now?
i've read patent books where the the patent lawyer(author of said book) have
seen and dealt
with many a naive self proclaimed geniuses fail miserably and have lost
countless thousands of
dollars in development never to recoup any of it, and there are others
who've seem to have
stumbled upon pots of gold with little to no intentions of making money. i
know the chances of
even a seemingly perfect invention making it is... well a crapshoot to say
the least. the only thing we can do
as inventors is pray the grace of a higher power is on our side. we're not
in it expecting a get rich quick scheme,
at least give us that much. im not a religious man, never really have been
but i do believe that, like einstein did in his later years,
there might be something more in the universe than determinism drawing the
strings of fate.
but alas here we are trying to improve upon an engine that conceptually and
practically has retained 90% of its
original form since the fifties. same trochoid silouhette, same
seals(different counts), same rotor; just different sizes with the exception
that it is now running a side port exhaust system, which with all do respect
is the only real improvement structurally the old rotor has ever had just to
help pass current emissions and upgrade from fuel economy akin to most
trucks. right about now i imagine felix wankel is rolling over in his very
grave, asking, praying for a revelation, or rather a revolution!
listen to the music folks, its only still here on the radar because mazda is
currently the only manufacturer standing in the way of a respirator
unplugged. In short, unfortunately if it remains at such a stagnant stage
it will always be at best, second best.
this is why i believe, if not us, someone, anyone break the mold and
eliminate its handicap to its older brother because we all know
once its let out of its cage, theres no stopping it.
ps. sorry if my post was a little over-dramatic. i just couldnt help my
self. lol.
han nguyen
That is all well and good as a philosophy.
I would love to hear about your suggested specific improvements.
Paul Lamar
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