Subaru engined plane.
20 April 2011, 10:19 AM
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A friend of mine from quite a few years back was building a light aircract in the 'granny annexe' of his (quite large) house, and was considering a Subaru engine (at the time, I'd never heard of them!) Unfortunately, it never got finished as he was banged up for a multi-million money forging operation!
I wonder how long it will be before that guy is on here saying that the bottom end has gone
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20 April 2011, 01:04 PM
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Doesnt' surprise me at all tbh... lots of light aircraft run boxer configuration type engines, often turbocharged. Also often with no wastegate, so you just have to watch for an overboost light!
20 April 2011, 07:18 PM
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Very interesting! It looks like a quality job.
Funnily enough a statistic states that 70% of kit aircraft are never completed. What happens to them all?
Just to show there's not much new under the Sun, here's an autogyro, a two seat RAF 2000 that we were involved with building and setting up some 15 years ago. It used a Subaru 1.8 nasp engine with a Weber carb!
We tied it to a post outside in the yard, using the prop pitch as a dyno. (more power expressed by higher rpm for a given pitch)
Funnily enough a statistic states that 70% of kit aircraft are never completed. What happens to them all?
Just to show there's not much new under the Sun, here's an autogyro, a two seat RAF 2000 that we were involved with building and setting up some 15 years ago. It used a Subaru 1.8 nasp engine with a Weber carb!
We tied it to a post outside in the yard, using the prop pitch as a dyno. (more power expressed by higher rpm for a given pitch)
20 April 2011, 10:44 PM
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There was an enterprising Aussie who put a Rover V8 engine in his Piper Cub and flew it about from a local dirt road strip. Eventually somebody who mattered noticed this, and he got hauled up before the Judge on charges of flying an unlicenced aircraft. The Judge's words were "I'm sorry mate, but I gotta fine ya" ..
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