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Return-Path: <13brv3@bellsouth.net> Received: from imf18aec.mail.bellsouth.net ([205.152.59.66] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2b3) with ESMTP id 93746 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Thu, 27 May 2004 22:42:22 -0400 Received: from rad ([65.6.194.9]) by imf18aec.mail.bellsouth.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.08 201-253-122-130-108-20031117) with ESMTP id <20040528024219.MVFK1773.imf18aec.mail.bellsouth.net@rad> for ; Thu, 27 May 2004 22:42:19 -0400 From: "Russell Duffy" <13brv3@bellsouth.net> To: "'Rotary motors in aircraft'" Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Re: 50 HP rotary engine? Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 21:42:20 -0500 Message-ID: <01ea01c4445d$65d59540$6001a8c0@rad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_01EB_01C44433.7CFF8D40" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_01EB_01C44433.7CFF8D40 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Rusty, three blocks from my house in Nederland, Texas (next south of Beaumont, off I10 30 miles from Tex-Louisianna border) there is an old British air boat that has been sitting for years. It has two small = rotary engines to run the air boat prop(s?). I tried to check the data plates = a few years ago - don't see any record of the info in my files. I'll go = look if you want. HP could be 35 to 50. David =20 That's certainly interesting. I'd love to see some pics, and hear any = info that you can get from the engines, but I wouldn't want you to go to any = real trouble to gather this. Unless they're for sale, and are dirt cheap, = I'd have to figure that it wouldn't be worth the risk of never being able to find parts to rebuild them. Can't help but be interested though. =20 =20 Thanks, Rusty (used to have to work on an MRI in Sulphur, LA) ------=_NextPart_000_01EB_01C44433.7CFF8D40 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message

Rusty, three blocks from my house in Nederland, Texas = (next=20 south of Beaumont, off I10 30 miles from Tex-Louisianna border) there is = an old=20 British air boat that has been sitting for years. It has two small = rotary=20 engines to run the air boat prop(s?). I tried to check the data = plates a=20 few years ago - don't see any record of the info in my files. I'll = go look=20 if you want. HP could be 35 to 50.

David

That's = certainly=20 interesting. I'd love to see some pics, and hear any info that you = can get=20 from the engines, but I wouldn't want you to go to any real trouble to = gather=20 this. Unless they're for sale, and are dirt cheap, I'd have to = figure that=20 it wouldn't be worth the risk of never being able to find parts to = rebuild=20 them. Can't help but be interested though. =

Thanks,

Rusty = (used to have to=20 work on an MRI in Sulphur, LA)

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