DeltaHawk Diesel

"wingsnaprop" wrote in message
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All Valid Points. But, build a better mousetrap, ect.......... and,
What would be your thoughts if Lycoming bought them ? Could happen.


I would prefer that just about any large company buy them other than
Lycoming, but Lycoming will do. Unfortunately, these types of deals rarely
happen because the inventor of the "better mousetrap" has no idea how little
the thing is really worth.

The only chance to get a bid out of Lycoming is to let it slip that someone
else (that they feel threatened by) is bidding. Still, those guys are so
conservative, it would take another decade for them to bring it to market.

Take Theilert/Centurion engines. Here is a better mousetrap that could
easily sell $12M worth in the next year if they could just set up a support
network for the US. Likely, the 12M would increase exponentially over the
next 5 years to over $200M. For some reason, the support network isn't
there, and reportedly, Frank wanted an ungodly sum for the aviation part of
his company when investors called. I can't get anyone to tell me what the
real bugaboo is, but it sounds like a lot finger pointing about who should
be responsible for the support.

Hell, they could probably take whatever it costs to build the support
network, double it, and add it to the price of the engines and hardly see a
drop in demand.

Hey Dude, Could you E-mail me? I think you can 'Glean' my E-mail out
of this header. I tried to E-mail you at but only got
Noah Vail.

Dude,
You sound like a guy that is on top of this subject.
I'd love to drink a beer with you and discuss the future of Compression
Ignition engines in Aviation.

What part of the world are you in ?
Dayton Ohio here.

Jay Markland
Dayton Ohio

"The Dude abides" ( know what that's from?)

"wingsnaprop" wrote in message
oups.com...
Hey Dude, Could you E-mail me? I think you can 'Glean' my E-mail out
of this header. I tried to E-mail you at but only got
Noah Vail.

Dude,
You sound like a guy that is on top of this subject.
I'd love to drink a beer with you and discuss the future of Compression
Ignition engines in Aviation.

What part of the world are you in ?
Dayton Ohio here.

Jay Markland
Dayton Ohio

"The Dude abides" ( know what that's from?)

Not until I googled it. I kept meaning to see that one, but never did.

You got the benefit of most of what I know. I was all about new technology
a couple of years ago. I did lots of reading and talked to some of the key
players (the aviation world is so small, I think there are only 2 degrees of
seperation). I also learned a bit lurking here. Throw in a .bom education
in venture capital, and even a hard head like me can see what's going on.

We all want new engine technology, but we won't get it until the pain of a
new product is less than the pain of the old one by a large wad of cash.
The only other chance is that someone with REAL money decides to throw a lot
of it at the problem without caring about losing it all and more. Our angel
will need to be wealthy, love prop planes more than his family, and be
patient enough to wait a decade for the FAA to come around to reality.