Off to a good start with son assisting Horizontal stabilizer getting ready to rivet
Wing coming right along
Neat things come BIG BOXES!
It was in route from the Philippines for several months.
This is a quick build fuselage
kit.
It was mentioned above that this
was a rotary powered RV.
Here it is ready to go right
out of a Mazda, Prop and all. (:-))
Just kidding below you can see
what it really entails.
Here Doug has been cleaning out the passages
Rotors, the inner surface of
the rotor housing is steel with chrome plating. The
rotor seals or followers are
cast iron.
Shown here are the individual
coils which are Corvette parts.
Each Rotor has two spark plugs,
therefor four coils.
The above unit is an electronic
fuel and ignition spark control.
Much like our modern automobiles,
but with 100% redundancy!
Photo shows the combustion sequence
Graph shows power to weight ratio of common engines
Stay tuned for more information on the project.