Paul, While attending your forum at OSH, I mentioned to you about a
booth in the Ultralight Area pushing a single rotor completely new
Wankel. I had relayed your forum information to the folks at the booth
but I don't think they attended. Anyway, for your information this is
their contact information.
Arieh Rotary Engine
7329 W. Airway Ct.
Suite A
Boise, ID 83709
Phone:208 761 8244
Email:
rod@ariehllc.com
It appeared to be a clean slate design with no Mazda parts on a smaller
scale than Mazda. The guys name was Rod Schramm. Looked as though he
was far along to completion.
I hope to hear from them. Sounds interesting.
Maybe they will notice the article in Flying magazine.
Great article on our TTC project on page 80 and 81 in the August issue
of Flying magazine by Peter Garrison. Peter writes two articles every
month.
For those of you that don't know Peter.
"In 1968–1973, while living in Tarzana, California, he designed and
built an all-metal, two-seat, single-engine low-wing monoplane. The
design was influenced by the T-18 of John Thorp and the PL-2 of Ladislao
Pazmany, both California airplane designer/builders. Garrison called the
plane Melmoth after an 1820 Gothic novel, Melmoth the Wanderer. It was
notable for unusually long range and for Mr. Garrison's lack of academic
qualifications for designing it. With his companion, television
documentary producer Nancy Salter, Mr. Garrison used the aircraft to fly
to Europe, Japan and South America. The 1976 Pacific crossing was the
first nonstop flight from the United States to Japan by a homebuilt
aircraft."
Peter came up with a humorous way of describing piston engines.
"an army of bits and pieces jumping back and fourth in an oily blur" ROLF
As far as the rotary is concerned.
"As the rotor turns these voids grow and shrink compressing and expanding
their contents in the same way a four cycle piston engine's cylinders do."
Good description.
For those of you over seas that do not have access to Flying I will scan
it when I get back home at SZP.
Paul Lamar
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