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Good Luck, TJ. I have found
that a lot of people just don't want to be educated, they prefer
their misperceptions. I still get people who are convinced the rotary will
never work because they have "seal problems". Happened to be true back in
'73-74 for a year or two - then the Mazda engineers fixed the problem - but that
is still what many folks remember.
I notice that the comments about the
Sport Aviation article seems to focus is on the fact that the rotaries
were louder (true) and burn more fuel (also true for those PP engines), but they
didn't apparently notice that the rotary beat the lycoming in power and
speed. I mean more power generally requires more fuel doesn't
it? Just shows a basic lack on understanding about engines in
general in my opinion.
I personally believe that a lot of folks
just really don't want to think they paid almost $30K for a Lycoming and a $4K
rotary can beat it (note the PowerSport rotaries are not in the $4K class
{:>)). You should have seen how deflated the Lycoming crowd was (some
of which had spent considerable $$ in "hopping" up their engines) when
Tracy Crook beat them in the Sun & Fun 100 race. You'll also notice
that win did not get any publicity to in any of the Aviation magazines -
because they know where their $$ come from. You'll also notice they then
cancelled the race event shortly thereafter - reportedly due to insurance
considerations - but we all know the REAL reason {:>). Ok, Ok, it
probably was insurance considerations and not the fact that a rotary was winning
air races, but it sounds good {:>)
Sigh! I mean we know this
is a Lycoming centric world - Well, that just means more good cores for the rest
of us {:>)
Ed
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 10:24 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Questions from a
potential rotaryphile
Welcome to the club!
I am frequently on the PPRuNe forum and I
ran a cross a Wankel thread, with lots of misinformation about the
Rotary.
At least I tried to steer them in the
right direction....
TJ
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 9:08
PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Questions from
a potential rotaryphile
I'm a bit surprised hearing it came from
Al Wick as he was on this list for a while. I thought he had a better
understanding of what was going on with the rotary. But, you're right
a little knowledge means incomplete knowledge which can be
dangerous.
Ed
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 3:35
PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Questions
from a potential rotaryphile
Ed Anderson wrote:
Clearly a person who has "heard" things about the
rotary, but does not know anything about
them.
Indeed.
Rich was quoting Al Wick, from 5/20
posting on the COZY_builders
mail list, "COZY: Fuel issues with auto
conversions".
A *little* knowledge is a dangerous
thing.
.
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Original Message -----
Sent:
Sunday, May 21, 2006 7:48 AM
Subject:
[FlyRotary] Questions from a potential rotaryphile
In a
different forum, not related specifically to engines, the following
was stated,
"...Rotary
is different issue. Their unusual combustion chamber requires
them
to mix 2 cycle oil with each tank. If they don't their
compression seals
die prematurely. Just like your boat motor mix, I
don't see it as a big
deal. In addition, if they use aviation fuel,
they develop power drop on
departure and have to replace all their
plugs before next flight. This
happens every 20 hours. They don't
have solution for this."
What is the experience that you are
having? Is there any truth to this. If not true, where might this info
have come from??
thanks,
Rich
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