REFLECTOR: Rotary

[Steven Oakley]

Hi,

Another site for real Rotary experiences is John Slade
(http://www.canardaviation.com/) he has a Cozy IV with a Rotary, his flight
testing section is really interesting and shows exactly what can be involved
with getting a Rotary working.

I am still early in the engine process, but I will either go for the Diesel
or the Superior XP400 for my SEFG when the time to decide approaches.

Steve.  

-----Original Message-----
From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of Chuck Jensen
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 6:18 AM
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Rotary

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
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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.
> 
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