Return-Path: Sender: "Marvin Kaye" To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:19:53 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from fed1rmmtao08.cox.net ([68.230.241.31] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c3) with ESMTP id 829222 for lml@lancaironline.net; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 19:37:41 -0500 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=68.230.241.31; envelope-from=sportform@cox.net Received: from [10.0.1.2] (really [68.5.208.199]) by fed1rmmtao08.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-118-20041027) with ESMTP id <20050330003646.NYTY18934.fed1rmmtao08.cox.net@[10.0.1.2]> for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 19:36:46 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Original-Message-Id: <15c1f50260b1fc66f1e1a04c5609bc3b@cox.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Barry Hancock Subject: Re: [LML] Re: Alternative Engines X-Original-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:36:44 -0800 X-Original-To: "Lancair Mailing List" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) On Mar 28, 2005, at 8:41 PM, George Braly wrote: > Hope springs eternal on this issue. > > People have been trying to build a V-8 aircraft engine for general > aviation ever since the RR Merlin. Toyota got one in the air not long ago. RAMM test flew it and Toyota, after $50M of R&D scrapped it half way through....as if it never happened. Our best bet is a lower output turbine. Continental tried that, even presented it an NBAA one year, and $50M and a year later pretended it never existed... With the kit market growing and Americans never ending thirst for more power (regardless of the actual return on dollars) will I'm sure one day lead to......yep, hope springs eternal. Barry