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With prices of Rotary and or any auto conversions and prsu you can almost just install a good mid time certified engine or buy a new one from Superior with a 3 year warranty. I always thought the reason for using auto conversions was partly due to them being cheap but now that that is going wayside what is the point.
Not that this has anything to do with Rotaries but we have 2 aircraft with subaru engines on them in our chapter. One crashed because the computer that controls RPM has to be faked out to think its not running high RPM and somehow that didnt' work, the other has less than 40 hours on it, tried to quit in-flight once and just recently had to be torn down and rebuilt because they found rubber and a spring in the oil.
Bryan
On Jun 8, 2007, at 6:50 AM, kneaded pleasures wrote:
Mark Steitle writes, ".... As for the basic rotary engine, I feel that it is way more reliable than its certified counterparts."
Perhaps true Mark, but isn't it also true that the most frequent failures of the rotary application to aircraft is the prsu? In my not-so-recent readings on this topic, many rotary-driven aircraft had crashed and very few flying rotary a/c had significant hours on the engines and aircraft. Is this still true? How many flying hours do high-time rotary aircraft now see without major overhaul of either/both the engine and prsu? Greg Nelson
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