Came across this tidbit of info I never heard about, but I am sure
 some of you know about it,

 Another attempt to rescue Williamsport was made in introducing the
 "radical" /SCORE/ engine, a Wankel engine

Wankel_engine originally developed
 in a partnership between Curtiss-Wright

and John Deere


 Curtiss-Wright lost
 interest in the design just as it was maturing and sold it to Deere,
 who brought in Lycoming to sell into the aviation markets. They were
 guaranteed a startup run by Cessna

 , also owned by Textron. Just
 as production was ready to start, Cessna announced they were halting
 their small-aircraft business for an indefinite period, and SCORE was
 cancelled. The remains of the Deere licenses were later purchased by
 Rotary Power International

 which briefly produced a 340 hp (254 kW) version.

 Steve Carlisle



 If this site is correct, score engine program is now owned by Barger
 Tech LTD.

 http://www.bargerltd.com/engine_history.htm

 You can find many reports about these engines on google by searching:
 2013R SCORE 70 ENGINE, and 2034R SCORE 170 ENGINE

 Dragan Ristic

That is Eric Barger of Rotamax fame. Nice collection of photo's
on his web site.

Here are some pictures of the CW/John-Deere/RPI stuff he has
acquired. I took these  in a storage warehouse in Florida a few years ago.
All this stuff and a ton of paper work is probably at Eric's house in Ohio.

The key to really putting the Wankel on the map is improving the fuel
burn by 5 to 10% and getting more of them in the air.
IMHO That means more R&D on the combustion  chamber.
Not enough R&D  has been done on multilayer combustion chambers.
IMHO therein lies the breakthrough. I don't have the time and
money to do that.

The part I am working on is getting more of them in the air. We were really
set back by Obama. Not all aircraft owners are rich. The vast
majority were middle class. He tried to destroy the middle class  to
make every body equally poor!!! That also affected RX8 sales up to
the point Mazda had to with draw it from the market.

Middle class  part of private aviation was almost destroyed and it will take a
few years (if we are lucky) to be restored.

Hopefully we will have a rotary gear box shortly. I need to get my NC mill working
and I need some help on that. Not so much money as an NC expert to help me.

David is doing what he can but he is in high demand.

Paul Lamar


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