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Originally Posted by BRUTAL64
Ok, not the same guy. My guy (sounds weird) used to love to put that damn wankel engine in planes. Told me that he got more power and it was smoother.
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The power per size, packaging, yes. They do some trick things, making peripheral ports, Turbos and even using some kind of turbo mechanism to drive the input shaft from the main pulley. This guy Roland said that with all tricks in place and dialed they can achieve thermal effeciencies approaching 50%. I rather doubt that, but it sounds like they can get them pretty high. Compared to other automotive (not aviation) piston driven engines.
- relatively light
- small
- virtually endless duty cycle
- well suited to turbo applications
- definitely smoother (two rotor)