Tracy Crook:

What total cost would it take to get something like this in the air?  In
your opinion. is some thing like this fesable or doable?

William L. Monroe

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marvin Kaye" <marv@lancaironline.net>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 4:14 AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: AirJeep


> Posted for "Tracy Crook" <lors01@msn.com>:
>
> William,
> Bare block weight of the 13B engine is 180 pounds.  When all systems are
added
> up, the total is around 275.  Cost depends on how you obtain it. Get a
used
> engine & overhaul it yourself and the cost can be as low as $1000 - 1500,
not
> including redrive, intake, cooling & exhaust systems. .  Power is between
160
> - 190 HP depending on intake & exhaust tuning.  The engine & redrive are
about
> 35" long.  The engine itself is about a 13" cube.
>
> You can use any propeller suitable for the aircraft.
>
> Tracy
>
> >>>   I have an idea of a AirJeep that , if successful, could allow an
owner to
> land on water, land and ride home to park in one,s garage.. Could do away
with
> the automobile as a means of ground transportation. The model geometry of
> folding and srowing the wings by rotating to rest on three points is
worked
> out. The use of rotarry engine is part of the design.  Your comments of
the
> 13b would be of benefit to the idea.  Could you give me the engine weight,
> cost, horse power,  and outside deminsions? The engiine would be a pusher
on a
> high wing design. What is the propeller design--two, three, are four
blade,
> fixed or adjustable design? <<<
>
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