I've long noted that many of these places, East of the Mississippi and say in the Upper South and Mid-Atlantic regions, are right at general aviation airports.
So here we have, 180hp per side, compression ignition ( dieseling ), engines adapted from MBZ, built in Austria, and designed to have a low enough stall speed to have an adequate useful load, the long awaited return of the light twin!
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NASA has had protos of water cooled piston engines that can run on compression ignition ( dieseling ) using the kerosene jet fuel for some time now. They are a way of getting away from the 100LL aircraft gas, but without going all the way to the much more expensive turbine engines. This Diamond plane uses engines adopted from MBZ.
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Umm, I usually drive. LOL
Here is how:
Jul 7, 2011 , Last Updated: 5:19 PM ET CARIGNAN, Que. -- Transport Canada has launched an investigation to determine why a pilot landed his ultralight aircraft in the parking lot of a strip club in this town south of Montreal.
Local police say they received a 911 call from a witness who though he saw a plane crash at Le Rendez-Vous 10-35 bar on Saturday.
The witness later discovered that the aircraft had landed in the parking lot, and the pilot had entered the bar. He later left the bar and took off.
Police found the pilot, a 43-year-old man whose identity has not been disclosed.
He was not charged.
Civil aviation rules state that pilots are not to land their aircraft in public places unless it's an emergency.
Pilots are also forbidden from taking the controls of an aircraft within eight hours of drinking alcohol.
If the bar-hopping pilot is found to have been drinking and flying, his license could be revoked.
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This looks like a cam gear drive, for dual overhead cams. austroengine.at
Who would be willing to fly in or out of San Jose International at night time during a game at the $1.3G Santa Clara Stadium ( Levi's Stadium ), right in the flight path, when pilots and aviation safety experts have complained about their night vision being destroyed by lights from the stadium?
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Look at this first picture. Not only are the engines not mirror image, they are not counter rotating. That I don't like. This is a problem when adapting automotive engines. They didn't want to make the extra parts, like cams, oil pump, and starter, to make one run the other way.
Here, look at this: 4.bp.blogspot.com
You can see what direction the propellers go. One of the first with counter rotation. But work it out, they go the wrong way! Maybe this boosts effective thrust or speed or something. But if an engine fails, trouble. If one fails on take off, the procedure was to back off on throttle on the other, other wise the plan might flip. Lots of pilots killed this way!
Piper Seneca cdn-www.airliners.net
Counter rotation, but the opposite of the P38. These ones goes the right way to get good engine out performance.
When Twin Comanche's first came out, they were not counter rotating, nor was anything which came before them. But then they changed and everything after them changed.
Now the Seneca still has a problem, it still uses the constant chord or Hershey bar wings, even though piper changed everything else to tapered wings long ago. The tapered wings give greater speed and range.
Here, you can see the Hershey bar wings bing.com
Remember Pussy Galore's Flying Circus, in Gold Finger. Those planes were 4 seater Cherokee's, but with the 9 liter 6 cylinder 235hp engine. As a teen-ager, before I knew about that silly movie, I made a balsa wood flying model of a Cherokee 235.
Now the Seneca is not made out of that, it is made out of the larger 6 seater Cherokee. But anyway, everything else Piper has made going back decades is tapered wing, except for the Seneca. It has that real neat LoPresti cowling too, but just no tapered wings.
Twin Comanche, a much nicer looking plane than Cherokees, Cherokee 6's, or Saratoga's or Seminoles or Seneca's. But they cost more to make. But Comanche's were always the sensible person's alternative to Beechcraft.
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Amy Winehouse-I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Duet With Paul Weller) youtube.com
If I come on a hover board will I be refused admission
Of course not.
Got any pics of a hover board, or a place I can buy one?
I knew a high school teacher who had bought one from a hamburger stand owner.
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Here's a link amazon.com
OK, OK, I give up. Anyone know where I can pick up a slightly used SR-71 cheap? Now that's flying, cruising speed 2200 mph @ 70,000 feet. No worries about idiots with pocket lasers ruining my vision. 11.36 hours or so, round the earth transit, give or take refueling time.
Yes, I have seen these. Like the old Segway's but taken to the logical conclusion.
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There are actually several shops that do major rebuilds on these, both piston and turbo prop. And I don't think the turbo prop versions are ever counter rotating. Never seen that. At the higher power levels it does not seem necessary.
But with these aircraft you must have a complete and expensive rebuild, as they have a long known and fatal main wing spar cracking problem!
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About light twins in the US. First of all they have had a high fatality rate, 4x that of singles. Many feel that this was due to bad training practices. Many of the fatalities occurred during training. These practices have changed.
But also, I feel that to fly one you should have spin recovery training. This means in an aerobatic certified aircraft, and wearing a parachute. You need to have this so that your are bodily ready for spin recovery.
Currently flight instructors are required to have this, but not private pilots. I say that for flying twins you should have it.
Second, the twins of days past went down to 160hp per side. Like Piper Apache and Comanche Twin.
Now most feel that this is to little and could be tricky to fly engine out. So for example Piper Seminole is 180hp.
So this Diamond DA62 is also 180hp per side.
More to follow
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Single engine service ceiling 3,962 m 13,000 ft