Subject: Looking for a school
From: rotaryeng
Date: 6/29/2012, 7:26 AM
To: AAAA Put this in the To box


 Hello,
 I am looking for a rotary engine school, college or course I can attend. I
 am located
 in Virginia, US but will go to where I need to go. Thanks.

 Edgardo

 There are no schools that I know of.

 Read the everything on the  web site below and then ask questions on here.

 Will will be glad to give you an education.

 Paul Lamar

 Hi, i'm driving from Montreal to Florida tomorrow through sunday to work on
 my aircraft for a few weeks, as a thought is there anyone more or less
 along the way with a rotary aircraft project that doesn't mind showing it
 off briefly, maybe answer a few questions i might think of. I know its
 friday tomorrow so most are working, just on the off chance,

 Alex


 Alex,

 I'm in Manchester, CT not too far off I-91 just east of Hartford. (I-91 to
 I-291
 to I-384 exit 2(about 8-10 minutes)). I will be doing some riveting on my
 RV-9A
 this weekend. Send me your email address and cell # to (wmjack at t3cs.net)
 and
 we can work something out.

 Regards,

 Jack Hilditch

 Edgardo,
 Some of us on here learned early on in the RX2 days, and the only school was
 the "School of Hard Knocks". We broke everything except an eccentric shaft
 learning how to make reliable hp out of these. It's a good thing parts back
 then were really cheap!
 The guys on this forum are some of the best out there in the rotary world
 for aircraft applications. Some of us are opinionated, but the technical
 value of what Paul has on his site is beyond valuable to the new rotary fan.
 Have fun!
 Larry



Anyone know the movie "Always", full of nice old airplanes with round
engines. There is an "aerial forest fire fighting school"  featured in
there. Like rotary engine school, it does not exist. I am surprised at
the little tech support exist from the experimental industry, except
from people like Paul L. If we do not have computers and web
communication, rotary tech support would be like Charles Lindbergh
looking for navigational aid from NY to Paris.It is a bit of a chicken
or egg issue, which come first, no support, no users, it take technical
die hards like me to keep interested. With support, pass an undefined
threshold, it will take off on its own, like the experimental industry
helped by kits, and later match hole tech. You really cannot expect this
industry to grow when you expect someone to spend 5-18 years (and
divorces) in a garage. That is why I did not build anything  when I
first joined the EAA in the 70's
I am wondering if I show up at Oshkosh this year,will I see anything
with a rotary there. Just the plane, maybe the owner nearby too I can
talk to, I am not even going to expect a booth like Corvair there.
Another problem is the 100-150 HP range which is the majority of the 2
seat home builds, it is not a popular power range for rotarys.
Tony


The most popular home built's are the RV's. Almost all of them can be powered by the
Mazda rotary.

You may see two at OSH. OSH is not as popular as it once was due to the bad Obama
economy.

Paul Lamar
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