Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #37729
From: Russell Duffy <rusty@radrotary.com>
Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Re: Rotary for RANS S--16?
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 23:25:40 -0500
To: 'Rotary motors in aircraft' <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
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And I found Russell Duffy - Rusty, I followed your Slingshot build way back when, but then lost track of you just as you were starting the RV-8.

Hi George,
 
Your name sounded familiar, but I'm so bad with names...  I had to look you up on the Kolb list archives, and now remember you from the signature "We rent the night".   I guess I can run, but I can't hide :-)
 
As for the single rotor, I'm not sure I'd suggest getting your hopes up on that right now.  So far, there's more bad than good about the idea from what I've seen.  It's certainly possible to make an engine that will fly, but I'm becoming doubtful that it will have any significant advantage over well proven piston engines.  What we really need are smaller displacement two rotor engines, but they haven't been available in any significant quantities. 
 
Rusty (engaging infrared jamming system)  
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