Saw it and talked to the designer for awhile.  It is not quite as 'far out
there' as I first thought and the designer has put some real thought into it
but I think the performance specs are (very) optomistic.

There are also some other unrealistic numbers.  60% of 450 HP is 270 HP and
10 gph is not going to make that much power.  Do the math and it is more
like 100 - 120 hp.

Will it work?  I'm not really qualified to say.

Tracy



----- Original Message -----
From: "Fly Bum" <fly_it_slow@yahoo.com>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 4:14 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: auto troubleshooting question


> My friend got his RX-7 running.  Ended up being the
> fuel pump,  worked fine statically but didn't deliver
> when the engine was running.  Needed Viagra I guess.
>
> Anyhow, I digress again.
>
> Anybody see this at Oshkosh BTW?  Engine details?...
>
>  It's a dream that has eluded aircraft designers for
> almost a century but a California engineer and A&P
> mechanic says his strange-looking craft will end the
> quest. "Real freedom of flight is when you don't have
> to use an airport," said AMV Aircraft owner and
> designer Atilla Melkuti. A six-foot vaned fan under
> the belly would provide lift for vertical takeoffs.
> After the aircraft transitioned 26 degrees forward the
> fuselage and wing lifting surfaces would take over.
> With a turbocharged 450-horsepower Mazda rotary
> engine, Melkuti predicts a 5,000-fpm climb for the
> 900-pound aircraft (gross 1800), 280-mph maximum speed
> (250 mph at 60-percent power) at 10 gph. First test
> flight is set for August. Melkuti's friend Imre Nagy
> has a different dream, one that has also been tried
> many times but never really caught on. Nagy has always
> thought that airships offered the best of all worlds
> in aviation. He's designed a kind of personal airship
> that offers 1,500 square feet of living space and the
> go-anywhere flexibility of aircraft that don't need to
> use the National Airspace System. Nagy said the
> airship is also amphibious because all the
> accommodations and systems are inside the waterproof
> hull. "You can just land on a lake and hang a fishing
> line into the water," he said. Four Mazda rotaries on
> revolving pylons provide power and control. "Since you
> don't need to take off from a runway, anyone can fly
> it," he said. The self-financed project is on hold for
> now until Nagy can sell some real estate to finish the
> prototype.
>
>
> Joa
>
>
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