It's only 65 hp because you are supposed to use more than one. Can you imagine your very own four engine bush plane?

tom

kevbert wrote:

172heavy wrote:65HP What are ya gona put that on? I fly RC with engines bigger than that,,,,almost,,,Ok not quite. But still not until they can compete with a O360 will they hav a marketable engine.
That thing is little more than a toy.

I hope I don't distress your sheltered little world, but airplanes do come in a variety of sizes. The first Piper J3 Cub only had 40 hp before moving up to a 65 hp engine. Some other planes off the top of my head that have used 65 hp engines:

Aeronca Chief
Luscombe 8A
Taylorcraft
Piper J4 Cub

and a whole slew of experimental 1 and 2 seaters.

Not with My fat ass in it!

Ha ha,

My Tcraft L2 with an AC65 carries a fat ass every time we fly!

I look at that engine wondering how quick two more cylinders will burn my 14 gallons of fuel.

Sorry for the thread drift...

DCO-65, you might want to contact Terry Bowden in Texas regarding the 85-100 HP STC he offers for the L-2. Or go on the T-craft discussion site and find him as "Barnstrmr".

He offers a first class STC allowing you to put the 85/90/100 HP engine on the L-2 series with minimal changes and no gov't hoops. The STC was originally developed here locally by my friend "L-2 Gary", in partnership with Terry (the FAA-DER).

It makes a tremendous difference in the L-2's performance. It gives you the torque to overcome the drag when you ask the big T-craft wing to make a lot of lift (which it will do). So you can now make full use of that huge lifting wing for more than the 10 seconds the A-65 will pull it upwards. That will make it into a new airplane... a better back country airplane capable of getting out of much shorter strips and over terrain. And it only uses the fuel you need to use. You can still cruise it around at 4GPH at 2100 RPM when you don't need the extra oomph.

Sorry to divert attention away from Chinese radials for a moment... I'm a T-craft lover

Terry Bowden is a great guy and helped me with an STC to keep the 75hp conversion in the plane. Can't brag on him enough. Even though I can't run the mountains with the big boys I still love love that little plane.

I put some gap seals on my B model that made a little difference in climb. They did not mess up the slotted effect of the aileron, they only covered over the huge square holes in the aileron where the hinge brackets were.

In the mountains, the VG's should give you a little better climb performance too if you put them on, because I suspect they reduce the drag at higher AOA (by delaying separation).

EZFlap wrote:The Chinese are capable of making good products and bad products.
...the Chinese electric aircraft (Yuneec e430) is apparently usable, reliable, well built, and represents a reasonably good value compared to other alternatives....
....The average Chinese worker may or may not have the built-in concern for flight safety that the equivalent American (or German, or Italian) worker would have....
....I suggest the "Harbor Freight" test ...

Well-spoken

China can't build engines as good as the west.
Wasn't the same being said about the Japanese at one time. Korea the same. The first cars we saw from them were poor quality. Look at the cars coming out of Japan and Korea now. Seems like there are a lot of Japanese and Korean cars on the road all over the world and they are good quality.It might take China a little time but the same is going to happen there too. It is a bigger country to try to get moving in the right direction, but they are moving. Right now quality might not be up to our standards but when they figure it out. We will see them take over.
We are going to be sitting back thinking the same old tired thoughts. We build the best. Ra! Ra! Ra! Then all of a sudden we are scratching our heads saying. What happened?

As far as the quality of these engines goes. There are no reports saying they are bad.
Maybe the critical parts for the engines are being built outside and then assembled in China. If metallurgy is a problem it might be done this way.
Who knows?
GJ

One of my dreams that will probably never happen was to take an Antonov AN-2 and build a Camper in back. That would be almost as cool as the Winnebago Helicopter.

http://www.vertical-aviation.com/galler ... itemId=755

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/ ... /index.htm

Anyway, when I was looking at the Antonov's I saw you could buy a replacement engine out of China for just over $12,000. They had apparently been using them all over the world and from what I read they were a suitable replacement. I doubt they look like that little guy were talking about.

Jaerl wrote:One of my dreams that will probably never happen was to take an Antonov AN-2 and build a Camper in back. That would be almost as cool as the Winnebago Helicopter.

http://www.vertical-aviation.com/galler ... itemId=755

That's cool!!