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I picked this off rec.aviation.homebuilt. Does anyone have anything to add?
Have a good day: Douglas Wagner
Jeffry Stetson (stetson@nscl.msu.edu ) asked:
>Is Rotax going out of business? A recent article in the British
>magazine "Sailplane & Gliding" seems to indicate so.
> From Sailplane & Gliding, August-September 1995, p210, Aero 95,
>paragraph 4:
>A report on a biennial sailplane and equipment show at Friedrichshafen on
>Lake Constance.
>
> The prototype 18m LS-9 motor glider,displayed by
>Rolladen-Schneider is based on a modified LS-4 fuselage with LS-6c -18w
>wings and tailplane. It was fitted with a water cooled Rotax motor from
>Walter Binder. With Rotax going out of production shortly, certification
>is expected to take some time.
>
> To overcome this problem the new 18m DG800B motorglider from
>Glaser-Dirks, which is identical to the Rotax engined 800A, has been
>fitted with a water cooled twin-cylinder two stroke from Mid West.
>
> Gerhard Waibel told me that Mid West's water-cooled Wankel rotary,
>which was in the 18m ASH-26E on Schleicher's stand, has now completed its
>certification in Germany.
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