At 09:45 AM 12/10/2011, you wrote: >I'm not sure I'd feel comfortable flying behind and engine that had > > to turn nearly 6000 rpm to make it's power. > > So you'd never fly in a jet? ;-) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
A turbine spins only in one direction. It doesn't have heavy metal parts changing 180 degrees in direction every fraction of a second trying to fling themselves out in to the atmosphere. :-) My tired old 0-200 took me on a 3.1 hour flight today. I visited the airport that I took my private check ride at back in 1969 and hadn't returned to since, then to another airport for lunch, then to my hangar at my old base for some stored fuel, then up to Mt.Vernon where the Gathering is held, and finally back to my current home base. My new cabin heat is great in the 32 degree air at altitude and the new exhaust is giving me a shorter takeoff and climb. All in all, a YEEEEEE HAAAAAA kind of day !!!!!!!!!!!! :-) :-) Larry Flesner
