This thing has been in the Phoenix area for quite a few years, it's been parked under the T shades at Deer Valley for a year or two and I finally stopped and took a few pictures to share with you guys. I think it looks cool, and it sounds cool, I saw it fly a few years ago. Gotta love the clipped wings and spiffy wheel pants. Sorry about the quality of the pictures, all I had was my phone. It was for sale a while back, but I haven't seen any For Sale signs on it lately.

WTF??? The extended nose means that maybe he has a Rotax in it, as in lighter? And the prop.... got to be experimental, maybe exhibition cat.? More details!

It reminds me that, though it would upset the hell out of the traditionalists, what I know about the T-Craft and what I know about the 912S (especially "Zipped") a zooted up 912S in a T-Craft would be a hell of a performer

You didn't look to closely at the exhaust pipe.............................turbine.

Is that the one Doug Combs built up with that APU turbine? I thought he wrecked it.

Gump

GumpAir wrote:Is that the one Doug Combs built up with that APU turbine? I thought he wrecked it.

Gump

I think more than once.

Wow!!

That's really cool!

Gotta wonder....so much invested and only an open hangar...?

Wow, looks like a Garret to me... I bet that is a hot rod! He probably can't run it long with the stock gas tanks, though. I would love to see some more information on this airplane!

The turbine came out of an GPU, can't remember the make. I'm friends with Don and Donna Warner, who were involved in the Luscombe Foundation prior to their big breakup with Doug Combs. I rode in that airplane once with Doug. It was a rocket, but as I recall it was plagued with lots of problems.

http://ronkilber.tripod.com/luscombe/luscombe.htm

Gump

Ooops.

Thanks for the link Gump, I had never seen that.

I couldn't keep two Solar APU's in Hawkers reliably supplying air and electricity, there is no way in H*LL
I would try to fly with one.
Dave

d.grimm wrote:I couldn't keep two Solar APU's in Hawkers reliably supplying air and electricity, there is no way in H*LL
I would try to fly with one.
Dave

Really? They are used all the time in small helicopters like the helicycle http://www.helicycle.com/

d.grimm wrote:I couldn't keep two Solar APU's in Hawkers reliably supplying air and electricity, there is no way in H*LL
I would try to fly with one.
Dave

Alyeska has all but stopped using the big jets for making electricity on the pipeline. They have about a hundred Solar enclosed units scattered up and down the line doing the work now. My experience has been that they are bulletproof, at least in stationary use.

-39&-40's ate sintered shafts between fuel control and fuel pump every 300hrs
And support was terrible. YMMV.
Too much experience to change my opinion.
Dave

Love the sounds! But read the comment...haha

piperpainter wrote:Love the sounds! But read the comment...haha

...Annnnnd, we're out of fuel... That was fun!