flyboy1963
Well Known Member
The Deltahawk thread got me thinking, and and OLD Flying magazine from 1988 I picked up at the clubhouse......
it sure sounded like everyone by now, would be flying behind a fully FADEC Porshe PFM geared turbo flat six!
....turns out, some folks somewhere must have one of these fabulous million dollar engines, either in an Extra 330, Mooney M20L, Socata TB-16, Robin DR400, Ruschmeyer MF-85 etc. ......apparently about 40 Mooneys were produced.
perhaps these have hit the boneyard as the engines timed out, with no parts available, or have been re-engined by some other modders like Lopresti et al.
Sure would like to see and hear an RV-10 or -14 with one of these little turbine-like units!
anyone else have any good info, or even anecdotes about this?
it sure sounded like everyone by now, would be flying behind a fully FADEC Porshe PFM geared turbo flat six!
....turns out, some folks somewhere must have one of these fabulous million dollar engines, either in an Extra 330, Mooney M20L, Socata TB-16, Robin DR400, Ruschmeyer MF-85 etc. ......apparently about 40 Mooneys were produced.
perhaps these have hit the boneyard as the engines timed out, with no parts available, or have been re-engined by some other modders like Lopresti et al.
Sure would like to see and hear an RV-10 or -14 with one of these little turbine-like units!
anyone else have any good info, or even anecdotes about this?