From the auto engine and motorcycle engine builders, and experimenters,
great benefits for the aircraft engine: nikasil cylinders; lightweight
starters, generators and alternators; carbon
fiber and composite propellers; modern fuel injection systems; Ellison TB
injector
and other variable venturi carbs;
ignition boxes by Lightspeed and Electroair; porting, flow-matching, and
balancing,

auto engines with good reps: subaru, vw, mazda rotary, bmw mcy engines,
suzuki sprint 3-cylinder

Engines I'm familiar with and don't like in airplanes: Franklin, Corvair,
any 2-stroke, 65-horse Lycoming (which never even made 60 horses in its best
day below sea level and could be best used as a boat anchor); Jabiru;
Revmaster; Trabant;
GO-300; Tigre (junk); Menasco (junk)

Fascinating new developments: diesel engines, like the Thielert and Zoche.

Other great engines: Ranger inline, Continental and Lycoming radials,
Vedeneyev, P&W, Jacobs (shaky Jake), Szekely, Warner, Wright, etc.

Favorite engine: Rolls-Royce Merlin which powered the P-51 Mustang:
plenty of horsepower, liquid cooled, supercharged, very efficient for its
time, still winning, at Reno

This was my outline but I had to git this a. m. I wanted to rant a little
about having to pay such high prices for certified props when you can buy a
s-o-t-a Warp Drive for $600. Now wouldn't that pull your little
Taylorcraft along at a zippy pace? They're doing it legally --- hanging
carbon fiber propellers on A-65's and C-85's pulling certified aircraft ---
in Canada and in other countries but in the USA, oooo noooooooooo, can't
stand the progress.


"- Barnyard BOb -" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 08:52:11 -0500, "Larry Smith"
wrote:

Doesn't *SEEM* right?

Ja, Bob, that's retarded, relatively speaking.