Paul, thanks for the comments. Burning the fuel inside the engine
sounds like a much better idea than blowing it out the tailpipe.
Gasoline rocket engines don't have very good BSFC... Looks like a
multistrike ignition would solve a lot of problems.

I am in Germany this week for other meetings and was able to make
arrangements to meet Paul Woelfle next weekend to discuss this
project, look at the engine etc. Poul is in the US on vacation at the
moment.

David Josephson

Poul is a cool guy. I spent a few hours with him in his home town.
Sorry I was not in Cal when he was here in the states.  I think he
would have liked where I live.

BTW when you travel never ever stay at Paris Hilton's hotels :)

Went down to the lobby to print a jpg and the computer they had could
not print jpgs. Somebody had tricked the windows gui so it only ran
certain programs. Normally I stay at cheap hotels but this one was
the only one that had rooms near Dulles at a some what reasonable
price. $89. That was just a hint of the many problems.

Paul Lamar

    Paul pointed long ago that the continued spark ignition systems
  are close to the Glow-Plug system that Toyota tested in their SAE
  paper about part/light load operation of a RCE, they claimed having
  obtained just by substituting a glow plug for the leading site spark
  plug a fuel economy improvement at low rpm/part load of 7%;
  perhaps the only doubt remaining may be how and how much a
  continued spark operation would affect the plug's electrodes life.
     Thanks for your attention. Best regards. Salut †
                  Jose Gros-Aymerich        Madrid, Spain

High speed sparks are easy on the plugs and give longer life.

Paul Lamar

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