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| I would think the ideal engine would be a properly developed wankel.
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| You'd think that for any number of airplanes but where are they?
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| Rotax is selling a wankel now, maybe it will be successful.
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Excuse me for jumping in here but I saw a wankel that a guy was
developing in Comanche, Ok. back in the '80s. He had a BD-5 in his shop
and was planning on using the wankel engine. It was a single rotor
design with enough power for the BD-5. His problem was high fuel
consumption. Exhaust temperature was another concern he had also. I
don't think he ever solved the fuel consumption problem.

The Mazda wankel actually had three times the CI that they advertised
according to an article I read at the time.

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