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The L'il Buzzard ultralight trainer.

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 L'il Buzzard!
 

Kids: Question: What is one horsepower? Answer: One horsepower is the amount of energy it takes to drag a horse 500 feet in one second.

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Alternate aircraft engines for ultralights and light sport aircraft.

The search for economical, affordable, reliable aircraft engines for ultralight and experimental aircraft continues. This year mounted on a single place experimental I found a Walter Mikron, 4 stroke, four cylinder in line, air cooled, 2440 cc engine from the Czech Republic. 

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At Sun N Fun I had a very entertaining interview with the manufacturers of the Wankel Rotary engine. The Wankel was just been introduced and by the "story told" it was the "better mousetrap." Well some months have gone by since then and some manufacturers have had an opportunity to see whether the "better mousetrap" was all it was cracked up to be.

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Aircraft Sales and parts manufactures of the Chinook, Beaver, and Summit power parachutes was also "down on the farm." At Sun N Fun they introduced the MZ series of ultralight aircraft engines. At Oshkosh they added two new engines to the line. The engines in the MZ series have been air and fan cooled - but the two new engines are liquid cooled. One is a two cylinder engine the other a three cylinder, both two strokes.

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Motavia problems continue:
The package as shown is neat and compact, and looks to be well engineered. But the engine was delayed for various reasons, and they lost one of their major supporters their U.S. distributor. At Sun N Fun one engine was flying on one trike! With engines according to the factory " being delivered to ultralight manufacturers for installation on aircraft."

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