.... and if you lost a rotor, you still have 200 hp at your disposal.
From: "Thomas Mann tmann@n200lz.com" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2020 12:38 PM
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Turbos.........
I considered a 13B with a turbo and compared that (Weight & HP) to a NA 20B.
Pound for pound the was comparable for take-off and landing.
.... but what I kept coming back to was 'Why did you select the Rotary in the first place?"
The answer to that centered around the practically bullet proof simplicity of the design.
Why would you go to a power plant that is truly simple in design only to complicate it with a Turbo?
That's my logic path for selecting the 20B vs. a 13B-Turbo
Either power plant will kick butt in a Long-EZ.
T Mann