David Megginson wrote: > Lowering the conversion costs will help. Another point might be > marketing position: right now, I can install a 135 hp Thielert in my > Warrior that will give me more-or-less the same performance as the 160 > hp Lycoming currently in it, only burning about 35% less fuel. Most > North American owners would be more interesting in performance --
I was told the Thielert performs a lot better at higher altitudes than the conventional, non-turbocharged 160 hp engine. > selling a 180 hp engine that makes my Warrior fly like a Cherokee 236 > (20 kt faster, much bigger useful load) The Warrior will never have a load like the 'bigger' ones because it lacks the reinfoced airframe, not matter which engine you mount, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
