Morgans wrote:
"Greg Farris" wrote

Meanwhile - I've seen KingAir conversions replacing the PT6's with
water-cooled V8's!They make all kinds of claims for performance improvements.

Cool! Got any links?
--
Jim in NC

Good morning,

There was some press about an outfit that was developing a conversion
to swap the King Air's PT6 turboprop engines for V-8 piston engines. I
think the name of the engine was spelled something similar to "Oreneda"
or something vaguely like that. I have not read anything about it in
the past year or so, never seen a real one, and there is nothing that I
can find on the net about it ( perhaps someone more proficient with
Google would have success). Given the near bullet-proof reputation of
the PT6, maybe it was just too hard to sell, despite the cost of
dealing with timed-out turbines.

Blue skies . . .

John