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APR 2017

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GENERAL AVIATION 14 APRIL 2017 AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE TECHNOLOGY ast year the German company Geiger Motor GmbH introduced two new Wankel avia- tion engines advertising them as "Power- to-Weight-Heroes." We have heard many similar slogans in the past from almost all other Wankel engine manufacturers, but Wankel engines never achieved success in the aviation engine market. Some projects disappeared, other were renamed many times, and just a few have found limited GEIGER MOTOR GMBH DELIVERS NEW WANKEL AVIATION ENGINES Geiger debuted at Aero 2017 in Germany a new engine/generator solution for electric aircra, and is also developing versions with a direct (combustion chamber) fuel injection By Marino Boric ALEXANDER GEIGER and Wolfgang Baier with a Flight Design CT with a two-rotor Geiger A2-74 engine in the background. IMAGES COURTESY OF MARINO BORIC

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