REFLECTOR: Rotary

[Chuck Jensen]

Ah, yes.  A little truth-in-advertising from Crook (which he is
obviously not). Reality is always sobering and tends to tamp down
fantastic thoughts and ideas.  Seems to me the Conversion People look at
an air plane as simply a structure to haul their dear engine around on.
The rest of us, time and mechanically challenged, look on the engine as
simply something that's necessary to push our dear plane around.
Satisfaction can be achieved for both groups, it just derives from a
different source.

Chuck Jensen
Do Not Archive
 


David Ullman wrote
> I am far from making an engine decision on my project.  
> However a rotary seems modern, like the plane.  So I bought 
> Tray Crook's book on rotary conversions 
> http://www.rotaryaviation.com/book.html and went to hear him 
> speak at Sun-n-fun.  The first words out his mouth were (I 
> paraphrase here) "If you don't want the engine to be part of 
> your hobby, don't do a rotary" In other word, if you want a 
> turn-key (every time) powerplant, stick with something more 
> conventional.  This certainly dampened my enthusiasm.
>