Continental O-200 ?
Stealth Pilot wrote:
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totally clueless nonsense brown eyes.
aircraft have a pressure plenum. almost no aircooled aircraft engine
are free cooled engines. everything with a cowling uses the very
effective technique of the pressure plenum.
I'd suggest you learn about them.
Stealth Pilot
The pressure plenum using ram air works at a given narrow range of
power settings, airspeeds and outside temperature. Ever see what
happens when a turbo Bonanza pilot at cruise pulls the power back and
puts the nose down into the yellow arc? CRACK!!!!! go the jugs!
PFM, although they had other problems, figured correctly that a blower
with well-designed thermostatic controls worked a lot better. You
couldn't shock cool one.
The old Connies, DC7s, etc. did very well with sophisticated cowlings
and high delta heat air cooled cylinder heads. But they were not
aerobatic, had a flight engineer just to run the power plants, like a
submarine, and the only sudden descents they dealt with were if they
had a cabin depressurization. If that happened they didn't bitch that
loudly at swapping out all four before the next flight-they swapped
engines all the time at the ramp with passengers watching in those
days.
If the massive death count of the Bonanza tells us anything, besides
that Beech management should have been shot at sundown on the ramp off
Webb Rd, it' s that single pilot IFR needs single lever power control.
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