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
<tel:208%20761%208244 Email:   rod@ariehllc.com
<mailto: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

I would be very interested to know how this engine is made Zoltan
Szakaly


Paul this  probably is the son of BJ Schramm, the pioneering designer/builder/pilot and founder/manufacturer.of Rotorway and Helicycle helicopters based near Boise, Idaho. When we were doing the aircraft Wankel R&D work from 1986-late 1997, BJ was in frequent contact with us and keenly interested in the work we were doing and always considering alternative power plants for his helicopter designs.  He produced his own four cylinder reciprocating engines for his Rotorway helicopters during this period so we talked to him frequently to learn from his engine manufacturing experience as we began pre-production work for the first limited production run of Powersport two rotor aircraft engines in 1996-1997.  We had begun taking selective orders for the complete engines.  This ceased when Everett died. I sold the company, tooling and parts to Ratech Machine in mid-1998.  I had BJ Schramm come over and speak at Everett's memorial service with Dick VanGrunsven and Steve Wolfe. Sadly we lost BJ in a flying accident a short time afterward when, as I recall, he hit a power line during a photoshoot.
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Steve Beckman

A water cooled version of the Volkswagen as I recall.

Paul Lamar


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