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Lehanover@aol.com wrote:
> The LASER would be mounted in a safe cool place and fire through a light
> wire.
>  
> Or a multi facet reflective target in each rotor face to direct beams in
> every direction, or high pressure injection right through a laser beam.
>  

That last one would HAVE to be the best design.  It would constitute injecting a fluid that would ignite the instant it
could find oxygen to combine with directly into the middle of the chamber.  Since there wouldn't really be a "flame
front", just a "flame", ignition timing goes away, and injector timing would be static.  It would start spraying when
the leading quench zone clears the injection point, and stop spraying when the desired power is reached or the trailing
quench zone approaches.  No fuel in the quench zones at the apex seals or sitting on the rotor faces, and complete
combustion no matter how lean it goes.  The throttle plate could be eliminated entirely, and the chamber volume increase
to the point that water cooling would be unnecessary.

Now, if only I could win the lottery to have money to do the R&D.