BangShift Question Of The Day: What Engine Would You Use For A Light Airplane?

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Powered human flight doesn’t require a monster turbofan jet engine and an aircraft the size of a small Midwestern town. Twelve horsepower was all the Wright Brothers needed in order to get the Flyer to soar over Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Sopwith Camels, the World War 1 aircraft, had about 150 horsepower. It wasn’t until […]

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[studemax]

Continental flat six.

[oletrux4evr]

Continental flat six.

I saw a BD-4 in Corpus Christi one day with a Chevy 350 in it.

[Barry Donovan]

I'd go with pateys engineering to size things up.
he is a pioneering...

I was crew chief, the planes remained desparate waiting for power. The fighters still crackle today to the low bypass screaming scary venturi..

the kc135 will be retiring on its third iteration. I have had my hands on all of them... j57, tf33, and the cfm 56.
the b52 has 8 engines because they never had enough power in the original design demand.



anyway, babbling on...
turbine for me. Even in the experimental.

..and I did keep 3 main bearing subarus for 20 years.
Still have a rare turbo sitting in a shed.

onto the future.... turbine.

[silver_bullet]

2 liter Ecotech turbo 4....