X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from relay03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.182.166] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.5) with ESMTP id 1026757 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 23:14:11 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=66.133.182.166; envelope-from=canarder@frontiernet.net Received: from filter02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (filter02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.183.69]) by relay03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47A3D358263 for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 03:13:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.182.166]) by filter02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (filter02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.183.69]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 02076-04-61 for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 03:13:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (67-137-93-70.dsl2.cok.tn.frontiernet.net [67.137.93.70]) by relay03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE43435813B for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 03:13:25 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <42C36350.6090806@frontiernet.net> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 22:13:20 -0500 From: Jim Sower User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Quasiturbine, the next rotary engine References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0526-2, 06/29/2005), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20040701 (2.0) at filter02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net wrjjrs@aol.com wrote:
Rusty, I looked this over. While it is novel there are a ton of problems with the layout. Lots of little trapped volumes, many pivots to lube, Lack of easy sealing methods. You don't realize how truly inovative the original rotary was until you see the ideas that fail the test of time. People in engineering are always looking for the simpler way to make the same thing happen. Felix Wankel was one of the rare guys that actually did it!
And Wankel wasn't even an engineer.  Or maybe that's a factor in his success? :o) ... Jim S.
Bill Jepson
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Russell Duffy <13brv3@bellsouth.net>
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 13:39:11 -0500
Subject: [FlyRotary] Quasiturbine, the next rotary engine

Greetings,
 
Someone just sent me this link for the howstuffworks site.  This is a very cool idea, but years away from actual use it seems. 
 
 
Rusty