I dont know about europe, but in the US it seems every single light piston engined aircraft is fitted with a air cooled Lycoming flat six. My problems with these engines is that they are very loud. Aircraft with these engines flying over at 10k feet sound like a lawn mover running in a neighbors yard. So, Im wondering if there are any alternative water cooled V block engines for light aircraft?
By: Distiller - 15th November 2007 at 12:30
http://web.thielert.com/typo3/index.php?id=598&L=1
http://www.epi-eng.com/index.html
By: BlueRobin - 14th November 2007 at 23:30
Bombardier were doing a very promising petrol-powered V-project but that seems to have died a death. Shame because it was touted to have been built with modern car tolerances in mind and capability to run on unleaded fuel.
There is a GM V-unit in the Australian kit-build Spitfire.
So not that prevalent…
Non V-stuff and more common. The Rotax is part water-cooled and very quiet, but only goes reaslly to 100hp max (the 914 is rare and max continuous is 100hp) Next most common is probably the Thielert Centurion diesel (soon to be fitted at a rated 155hp to Cessna 172).
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November 14, 2007 at 7:16 pm