Ralph S Bruner wrote:
Hey Paul and to everyone else,

Some time ago the Rotary web site featured a person named Dave Garber.
 Dave
built a one off airplane racer with two rotary engines.  A very
 different
design.  One engine pulling and one engine pushing.  The point of the
 story.
Dave took off from Athens airport (Ben Epps Airport) a few weeks ago in
 his
1957 Fuji LM-1.

Here is a link to the Athens paper

http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/102309/new_508159323.shtml

I will miss Dave he was a good friend.

Ralph



 Yes we know Ralph.

 Here are some pictures of Dave's rotary. He was a pioneer in Mazda rotary
 powered
 aircraft. A great friend and visionary.

 Paul Lamar

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 Paul
Did Dave ever fly the DG-1?How did it perform?  Looks like it would
 be a rocket.

 Mike C.

 Yes he did but he never solved the cooling problems. He tried using NACA
 scoops/ducts
 but they did not work. He needed P51 scoop/ducts. I tried to help but Dave
 wanted me to
 take it over but I did not have the room in my hangar. Also the Reno guys
 changed the
 rules with a minimum weight for the unlimited class. That is always bad
 news for high
 power to weight ratio rotary engines. It did not qualify for the sportsman
 class which
 requires two seats among other things. As far as I can tell this may have
 been the first
 Wankel powered aircraft to fly.

 Paul Lamar


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Actually Paul it doesn't appear to be the first to fly.  The Lockheed QT-2
built in 1967 flew with a 185 hpCurtis Wright engine in an ultra quiet (hard
to believe with a peripheral exhaust port back in the day) intended to be
recon aircraft with a slow turning prop.  They built a couple but eventually
converted the design it to an IO-360 Lycoming for use in the field.File
notes show that Curtiss Wright may have actually flown the engine in another
aircraft before then.  The rotary-powered QT-2 was an unusual configuration
aircraft  We found it doing technical research in old NASA and Curtiss
Wright files about 1985 when doing research for our first prototype rotary
engine.  Phil Meng at NASA later provided addition information when we
started test flights of the prototype in 1988.


Steve Beckham

All the European engines were peripheral intake ports. NSU etc. etc..

I think that particular CW engine was a side port.

Paul Lamar