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What, flying a plane with a Wankel rotary engine instead of a piston engine? It's been done, but there are a lot of problems with it. One of the big ones is efficiency: a Wankel engine is 25 percent less efficient than a piston engine. It's also water-cooled, and that adds weight. You have to mess with the ignition system to get the redundant ignition system the FAA requires--they want you to have two completely separate ignitions in your plane so if one stops working the plane keeps running. Also, airplane engines are made to run at a constant speed, which car engines are not.

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