Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #50200
From: Bill Bradburry <bbradburry@bellsouth.net>
Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] single rotor
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:18:52 -0500
To: 'Rotary motors in aircraft' <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>

Looking at the two sizes of the engine, it takes 1.6 times as much horsepower to develop 1.18 times as much static thrust!  Somehow this does not compute for me….I always doubt the performance figures in a sales presentation and when they don’t make sense to me…..???

 

Bill B (hoping this generates an educational experience for me  :>)  )

 


From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Mike Wills
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 11:10 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] single rotor

A friend of mine flies a powered paraglider (PPG). He attended a flyin last month and saw this:

 

 

It's a single rotor liquid cooled rotary and available in several different displacements. Do a little web surfing and you'll find some pretty cool videos of guys flying PPGs powered by this.

 

Mike Wills

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