Todd, I believe he has a display agreement with a meauseum but still owns it. After working out the injection problems it flew very well. They built scale retractable landing gear and everything it is really cool. (He swapped out the Suzuki Ign/injection computers for ones made by SDS Simple digital systems in Canada which cured all his misfire problems) SDS's site is
WWW.SDSEFI.COM. They make systems that will work for the 2 rotor engines, but no 3 rotor :-(
Bill Jepson
-----Original Message-----
From: Bartrim, Todd <Steve.Bartrim@canfor.com>
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 12:05:08 -0700
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: different take on the P-38 issue
I remember reading this. Unfortunately I gave away my entire stack of old Kitplanes a few months ago when I was packing to move. Does he have a website or any other posted documentation? Does he still own and fly it? How does it fly?
Todd
There is a 1/2 scale P-38 that Walter Treadwell a member of my EAA chapter built running 2 Suzuki Swift 4 cyls and using a belt reduction drive, I believe that is the one that was featured in Kitplanes. He is based in Livermore Ca (KLVK). (BTW he built the plane totally from scratch and his new project is the Johnson wax flying boat.)
Bill Jepson