Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #58080
From: Ernest Christley <echristley@att.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Why Apha N?? : [FlyRotary] Re: With great power comes...the ability to muck things up
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 16:29:28 -0400
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
dmlobner@gmail.com wrote:
> Project number one is my '92 Celica.  If I get comfortable with that, it'll go on whatever airplane I end up building.  It'll be a few years before I even start, so I don't know what it'll go on.  I asked on a forum, and they added support for 7 and 9 cylinder radials, so depending on what I go with for a plane I may put one on a Rotec.  My guess is that I'm going to build a small/cheap plane to start off...a VW with a belt redrive maybe?  Something like that probably doesn't make a whole lot of sense to a lot of people, I'll justify it by saying I'm the type of person who greatly values the education aspect of experimental aviation.

The type of person that can't make sense of that doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.  8*)

Low and slow with a gas sipping VW is a beautiful way to fly.

Again, if I had a do-over, I would have started with something much less ambitious.  Or maybe not.  I'm not known for my
 sanity.
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