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Dwane I think you might want to question Tracy about the Renesis in an aircraft. He said it was working perfectly. Not sure on oil consumption.

Several Fly Rotary people have had reason to question Atkins, I'd listen to the guys flying right now, Tracy, Ed Anderson, Dave Lenord, etc some like Dave even running turbos have never mentioned oil consumption.

Bill Jepson

-----Original Message-----
From: Dwayne Parkinson <dwayneparkinson@yahoo.com>
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Mon, Aug 2, 2010 2:43 pm
Subject: [FlyRotary] Bad rotary week

For anyone hoping that a 16X would show up any time soon: not ... gonna ... happen. No RX7 and the RX8 is still powered by the Renesis for 2011.

http://www.mazdausamedia.com/content/2011-mazda-vehicles-glance

As if that's not bad enough, when I was at Oshkosh I took in David Atkins rotary seminar. I came away pretty depressed thinking that I probably won't put a rotary engine in my airplane. Is everyone else really using 1 quart of oil every 5 hours? He also didn't have much good to say about the Renesis in an aviation application which leads me to conclude that the 16X will fare even worse in aviation applications as it is tweaked to meet higher EPA requirements and produce more low end torque.

Is anyone but Tracy using a Renesis? I'd really like to know what HP you're getting, what the fuel burn is and how it's holding up.

Thanks,

Dwayne

P.S. I couldn't find any rotary planes on the field at Oshkosh. Perhaps they sank into the mud.