Any other rotary pilots out there???

Sold a 20B to an experimental aircraft guy..

I will post pics of his setup for all of us to enjoy..

neat stuff..

 

Going to dyno soon
only looking to make 450hp @6000 RPM
Should be easy to do...

 

pretty sweet. i've always wondered...what happens when you are 20,000 ft in the air and that thing decides to spit an apex seal?

 

Thats is awesome.

If it breaks a seal, it will still run and easily make enough power to land.

 

bruce turrentine from the "rebuild video" builds rotary airplans all the time. the name "rotary aviation" gives it away lol

he used to build my motors and i saw my first 20B in his garage

 

It's not going to spit anything if run with the right apex seals. Failing compression seals aren't the only thing you have to worry about. Besides the engine really wont be under that much stress, since it will run at a constant tunned rpm.

 

I am liking that motor mount plate... more info?

 

You refer to your POH and do your emergency landing procedures.

 

Message to 20B Aviation:
A bro, Im no Pilot, but im a Aircraft Mechanic soon to be certified and whos into rotary engines... By tha way this is my first post

 

not to pee in anyone's cheerios.. but if i was goin to be 20k feet in the air.. i wouldn't want a rotary engine keeping me up there. ive just seen too many broke rx7s to trust it

 

Actually, Rotary Aviation has had great success with rotary powered airplanes. Rotaries are plenty reliable for aviation. The only disadvantage for the rotary is the engine produces no torque. 5,000 RPMs would need to be used with a Gear Reduction Drive. Lycoming Engines produce a lot of torque at 2200 RPM. Something the rotary can't possibly do.
Would be cheaper and more reliable to buy a Cessna though.

Twin diesel engine Diamond Star is a plane packed with plenty of torque and range to meet the best of all worlds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_DA42

 

http://members.***.net/alg3/airplane.htm

enjoy!!!

 

wow the fuel consumption on that diamond star is amazing, if the money ever presents itself i wanted to build a Vans kit plane with a 20b in it, and find a way to strengthen the airframe so it can handle a higher wingload. its that or build a viperjet mk2, lol either way money is an issue. heres a link of a clip of the viperjet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vM98tFIsQ4

 

Mistal Engines manufacture rotary aircraft engines, while they are based on Mazda 13B and 20B engines, they don't contain any Mazda manufactured parts.




Personally if I had a money no issue, craving for a personal aircraft I'd want a Eclipse 400.

 

got any specs on that eclipse? max speed, cruise speed at 60-70% fuel capacity and range? does it use that aircraft rotary?

 

the Eclipse 400 is a 4 seat, single jet engine aircraft.

Specs grabbed direct from company website: Eclipse Aviation

Performance
Max cruise speed (FL350) 330 ktas
Long range cruise speed (FL400) 290 ktas
Max range (FAA IFR + 45-min reserve) 1,250 nm
Service Ceiling 41,000 ft
Time to Climb to FL250 13 min
Time to Climb to FL350 22 min
Stall Speed (VSO) 61 kt
Takeoff Distance to 50 ft. (Sea level, ISA, MGTOW) 2,045 ft
Landing Distance (Sea level, ISA, Max landing weight) 2,100 ft

Here's a Youtube video of it flying over California.

Unfornuately the company looks to be a victim of the reseson, so it may never make it into production.

 

pretty sweet lookin, its slower and less adgile then the viperjet, but it is a 4 seat plane, the viperjet is bassiclly a scaled down f-15 without all the cool **** like missiles, hahaha. with a ceiling of 41k i hope they offer it with suplemental oxygen. i believe anything above 16k you need it. it is a bit thirsty as well, deffinatly more economical ways of flying, like that diamond twinstar, but hell who buys a jet to be economical? lol just wanna get there fast and in style