Ben Jackson wrote:

: I'm not talking about sound, I'm talking about the pipes. They stuck
: about 2' out of the bottom of the cowling on the SR20 I saw. Like giant
: fangs... I see now that those are only on the SR20 -- the SR22 has much
: shorter pipes.

The Mooney Ovation has the same long "tailpipes". I think it is to relocate
the boomy exhaust further from the floor where you put your feet. The Mooney
201 has the exhaust end right under the co-pilot's feet, and the noise and
vibration in tune with the engine is very impressive in the co-pilot's seat.
I find that without noise-cancelling headsets the noise is very tiring after
only an hour or two.
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Aaron Coolidge (N9376J)