Paul:

Let's forget the FAA for a few minutes.

PMA and all that aside, is there a business case, enough market
now, that you could manufacture x engines a year and make a profit?

Could you build a "standard" engine for Experimental purposes,
with "dial a yield"? Say a 2 rotor engine that would produce
100-300 HP by changing one part, or limiting the turbo-boost?

If you can do that, then there is the possibility of getting an
investor or three that would cover the cost of the one part that
is difficult to build (removing Mazda from the picture) and allow
the FAA cert (under new part 23 stuff).

The idea is to boot strap into a market that would love to stop
using TEL and still have the power to climb into the flight levels.

Just thinking about this, and the ramifications. So I just had to
ask.

Regards,
Steve Thompson


The middle class disposable income situation is very bad in the US and
probably the
world. Bad news for GA.

If we are lucky Trump can turn it around but that could take two to three
years.

The wealthy class always have money but they are unlikely to be impressed
on a rotary powered airplane unless it had extraordinary performance.

It should  cruise over 35,000 feet and 300 to 400 MPH with 2500 mile range.
Definitely possible with one or two  turbo 3 or 4 rotors. The price
should be under
5 million. The big advantage would be the lower cost and lighter weight
of the
rotary engines. Lighter engines translate to a lighter airframe and a higher
percentage of fuel weight. The lower fuel burn will also help the range

Turbo props are limited to 25,000 to 30,000  feet and and about 350 MPH
. Typical.
is a Beechcraft King Air 250 cost 6 million.

Private turbo props and jets sell in roughly equal numbers.

 Paul Lamar
--------------------------------------------------
Here the competition.

Frankly I don't think the time is right for this.

It would take tens of millions of capital to pull it off.

Henry Ford said something like this. Show me an innovating company
and I will show you a candidate for bankruptcy. Pioneers are
the people with arrows in their backs :-)

More rotary powered high performance experimental or home built aircraft
are the things to do. Lancair and Sirius both got their
start in homebuilts. Now for that to happen we will just
have to wait until the middle class is the middle class
again.

A good investment at this point would be a new gear box.
When Tracy retired there went the gear boxes. He probably
analyzed the economy correctly and assumed it would be
eight more years of the same so he quite while he was ahead.
He made a lot of money in the gear box and EFI biz.

I am working on the gear box problem but right at the moment
I am in the middle of a money battle.

However I just received some prop shaft bearings today
and I am working hard on getting my NC mill up and running.

Paul Lamar

The Rotary Engine free News Letter. Powered by Linux. If you want off
the list PLEASE let me know and I will remove  you.  ACRE NL web
site. http://www.rotaryeng.net You Tube http://tinyurl.com/beqqxas
Copyright 1998-2017 All world wide rights reserved.