Thomas,
I don't remember where I read this, but I recall reading that the
Japanese had trouble pronouncing "rotary turbo" and so they decided to
refer to the turbo-charged models as the REW.  Yeah, sounds goofy, but
it makes about as much sense as anything else I've heard.

Mark S.  
(Acronym Finder says REW = Rewind)

-----Original Message-----
From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On
Behalf Of Bob White
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 8:49 AM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Cooler spark plugs

On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 08:20:31 -0500
"rijakits" <rijakits@cwpanama.net> wrote:

> Message
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Russell Duffy
>   To: Rotary motors in aircraft
>   Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 7:47 AM
>   Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Cooler spark plugs
>
>
>   But what does REW stand for? (The R, the E, the W??)
>
>   Hi Thomas,
>
>   Here's a page with more abbreviations than you can stand-
> http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/mdictionary.html
>
>   You'll note that it still doesn't say what REW stands for.  It has
to be
> Rotary Engine W????
>
>   Cheers,
>   Rusty (the old man gets the worm)
>
>   Here you get another one:
>
>   http://www.acronymfinder.com/
>
>   Courtesy of Bob White ,.........  I think?:)
>
>   Thomas J.
>

Sorry, I can't take credit for that one.  Neat site though.  I've
bookmarked it.

Bob W.

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