Jim-Ed Browne wrote:

The LyCon flat air cooled engines belong in museums and restored
MM-era bug smashers, nowhere else. I saw a composite biplane built to
very detailed skin perfection in one of the crappy "popular science"
magazines-it was built by some guy who works for Rutan- and I actually
started laughing out loud when I saw that stupid 1920's era
construction overgrown lawnmower engine under the cowling.


Sorry JimBob,

Claiming that engines that evolved to turn propellers are obsolete
is clearly incorrect, and will be as long as they are the predominant
engines flying.