650HP Mazda  turbo two rotor. Aircraft weight 1175 pounds. engine
weight under 200 pounds.

First flight at SZP. Santa Paula California.

More GoPro videos later.

Paul Lamar

Congratulations! Well done!

Craig Spirko

Thanks Craig,

Here is the landing. In fact that turned out to be the hardest to do
as when you kill the power the huge prop blanks the tail surfaces
and you lose elevator authority.

BTW here is our new tail wheel made from a skate board wheel.

Paul Lamar


Congratulations on a major milestone.

 A more user friendly way of sharing larger streaming video files would
 be to place a link on
 the website with a email link to it with the announcement.

 Keep up the great work Paul !

 George  Mazurek

 You can get it on your cell phone or tablet with a little extra work.

 If you have android 4.4.2 the best way to see the video's is get
 the ES File manager. You first must save the video from your email
 program whatever that may be. On Android  4.4.2 I am using
 BlueMail. There have been probably a dozen versions of android
 since then and each version is only compatible with certain apps
 so you may not be able to find BlueMail. Try to use what ever email app
 you have.

 Then find the ES File  Explorer if you can. Run that and it will search
 your phone or tablet  for video's. They some times appear as a plain
 black box
 in the Gallery. Click on the box and a box pops up with video apps
 that you may have. That indicate a video hiding in that black box.

 Lets back up a bit. Try to install  Video Player. A green
 outer circle with black in the back ground and with a green arrow head
 pointing to the right. In android 4.4.2 that one seems to work the
 best.  That too will vary depending on the version of android you
 have.

 That will then pop up if you chose a black box  or a video with a file name
 in ES File  Explorer. In other words some video's are hidden and don't
 appear or appear as a plain black box the same size as a jpg.

 Paul Lamar

 Here is the video from the gopro camera at the top of the fin.
 What you are seeing here is the beginning of the end of the aircraft
 piston engine.

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 Last video of the day.


 Paul Lamar

 Wow! Took off like an F16. What was the climb rate?

 Incredible power/weight ratio. But more important to me is the reliability of the Wankel engine, and no better way to show that than under extreme conditions such as 650HP and 100 psi boost. The small fuel consumption penalty ( 5-10%) matters a lot in automotive and power generation applications, but in aviation, I'll pay that price any day not to be sitting behind a complicated, failure-prone, reciprocating engine.

 Again, Good work!

 Bob Ripley


 3,750 feet per minute at half throttle and only 10 psi of boost.
 About the same as the PT6 copy powered Legend shown here.
It has 750 HP but it weighs over 2000 pounds.

 Paul Lamar


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