{"id":193646,"date":"2008-11-27T06:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T11:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/27\/new-piston-engine-enters-the-mogas-sweepstakes\/"},"modified":"2008-11-27T06:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T11:41:00","slug":"new-piston-engine-enters-the-mogas-sweepstakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/27\/new-piston-engine-enters-the-mogas-sweepstakes\/","title":{"rendered":"New &#8220;Piston&#8221; Engine Enters the &#8220;Mogas&#8221; Sweepstakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationnow.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;issueDate=2008-11-24&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2008\/11\/24\/AW_11_24_2008_p44-92366.xml&amp;headline=New+Engine+Targeted+for+Non-Avgas+Applications\">Mistral Engines G-300<\/a> (<span style=\"font-style:italic;\">paid subscription required<\/span>) is a multi fuel Wankel rotary engine.<\/p>\n<p>Though the term &#8220;multi-fuel&#8221; means that it can run on both aviation (100LL) and automotive (87 Octane) gasoline, it&#8217;s spark ignited, though <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mistral-engines.com\/\">their web site<\/a> states that they are working on Jet fuel capable engines.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously there are fewer parts than a conventional piston engine, there are no conventional valves in a Wankel, but it still has a reduction gear, which was the major maintenance headache in the <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search?q=thielert\">Thielert engine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mistral Engines G-300 (paid subscription required) is a multi fuel Wankel rotary engine. Though the term &#8220;multi-fuel&#8221; means that it can run on both aviation (100LL) and automotive (87 Octane) gasoline, it&#8217;s spark ignited, though their web site states that they are working on Jet fuel capable engines. Obviously there are fewer parts than &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1128,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-propulsion","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}