Yes, I remember years ago talking to Ray Richardson of PowerSport and suggesting he could sell a ton of his PP rotor housings, gear boxes and other parts to the experimental community.  He declined (for whatever his reasons) and I think ended up selling perhaps 7 installations over about 7 years.  I guess they think we in the poor boy experimental community might appropriate their design and run with it.  Or perhaps they wanted to try and put distance between their product and "experimental"

 

I recall when Mystral was first getting started, they were at Sun & Fun in the engine tent where there was really a good exchange of ideas - but, then I guess they figured the learned all the could from that arena and soon stopped showing up.

 

Too bad, I saw Steve's in his Archer at Sun & Fun and it was a sweet looking set up.

 

Ed

From: Thomas Mann

Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2011 4:16 PM

To: Rotary motors in aircraft

Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Mistral Intake Documentation?

I talked with Mistral about two years ago and they said they had stopped selling parts. They claimed that the new intakes would not work on a standard 20B.

 

I think it was more about not wanting to deal with ‘the little guy.’

I don’t really expect anything to ever come out of Mistral at this point. Perhaps the company will go into bankruptcy and can then be picked up by a serious developer (on the cheap.)

I think they have a quality product .... it’s just the time to market issue.

 

Even Lycoming has an “Experimental” version of their engine.