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In a message dated 04/21/05  05:58 + Leon <peon@pacific.net.au> wrote:

Fred,

snip:

BTW, the drawing you attached is NOT originally from the hand of my really
good "friend" Paul Lamar. He fliched it, without due credit, from the
original author. Someone ought to have a go at him for being of double
standard about this copyright thing - I've seen dozens of drawings etc
published on ACRE without due credit given to the original authors.

Mazda produced a book many years ago called "The Rotary Engine" (as you
would), a fairly slim silver publicastion, but choc a block full of
information. The author was the head of Mazda's rotary development,
oneYamamoto San. So it is to him that the credit for the drawing should go.

Leon,

In my communication with Paul L. regarding an error in Kenichi Yamamota's
single rotor balance diagram he made it very clear that the diagram was
from Yamamota's book and that there was indeed an error which had been
corrected in later editions. If there was a flaw in my attribution it 
was mine,
not Paul's. I did mention Paul because I believed that he had done the 
markup
on the diagram.

Me, I'm just a simple engineer, retired from Cal Tech's Jet Propulsion Lab,
who discovered long ago to learn whenever and from whoever I could without
being concerned with demanding credit for my own contributions. That
attitude allowed me to work on many very remarkable programs with many
very competent people who were interested in accomplishment as opposed
to credit. There also were a few ego maniacs. 'Nuff said.

Fred O.