Hi  Guys.

This  is  a  BERKUT VL  rotary  powered coaxial  helicopter  made in
 Russia. They  are  supposed  to  conduct  test flights  last quarter
 of  2013.     Then total  silence.     Does  anyone  know what
happened ?

Ben  Sison

I remember having read about the people conducting research on RCEs
in Russia, that somebody came and took all the models they had been
working at, and also the production machinery for building more
engines. No idea about the current situation of Wankel production or
 research by Russians, but some videos are in YouTube. Best regards.
 Salut † Jose Gros-Aymerich Madrid, Spain

Vas built many 1000's of Wankel rotary engines. Mostly copies of
Mazda. The KGB used them because the Russian capitalist mafia did not
have them so they could catch the capitalist crooks  :)

Paul Lamar Thanks for the interesting and beautiful photos. Around
1976, Spanish Road Police had some BMW motorcycles, but most patrol
work was conducted on a locally produced motorcycle: Sanglas 400-500.
Some medium range cars had a top  speed higher than the Police
motorcycles, for example, the Simca 1200,  and drivers accelerated in
order of not being caught by policemen, and receive a fine, these
Simca were built in a Madrid plant property of a local entrepreneur,
plant that finally went into the Chrysler hands, they had agreements
with Mr Eduardo Barreiros, founder and owner, he started his business
career by transforming Gasoline engines for Diesel cycle and fuel, EB
was licensed to produce Dodge cars as luxury or government top
authoritie's cars. Shortly before his death, Mr E Barreiros was
called to Castro's Cuba to start there an automotive industry, the
only remnants for this attempt are that people that passed the
selection process for working in the industry that never started,
have a good reputation, and obtain more easily complex and better
'paid' jobs in Cuba.

An anecdote: in 1972 a teacher in a Medical School bought one of
these Dodge cars, in the top version, that included a vinyl cover in
part of the roof, and two metal letters on the rear pillar: 'GL',
for 'Gran Lujo' -Great Luxury-. When his wife was shown the car, she
said: "Paco: (an aka for Francisco) you shouldn't have bought this
car, it's tacky, and besides this, your initials are not 'GL', but
'FM".


Some people engaging in small scale bribery, very recently bought
cars from these years, for example the Seat 124 1600-1800, that had
a twin overhead cam engine, and was able to travel at a constant
speed of 175 km/h, well, when the road conditions allowed it, and
this made easier for them to scape from the police or rival gangs

--    Best regards. Salut †       Jose Gros-Aymerich


Hi  Jose.

Any  idea  then  what
happened  to  the
prototypes ?
And  who  is  that
somebody ?
Is  it  an  established
helicopter  company
so  they  can  eliminate
future  competition ?
Thanks.

Ben  Cessna

Are you related to Clyde ?

"Clyde Cessna was one of the co-founders of the famous
Travel Air Manufacturing Company that won international
recognition for its many outstanding aircraft.
He left Travel Air in 1926 to form his own company, Cessna Aircraft."

Paul Lamar


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