look for Thunder engine


"John" wrote in message
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|
| Morgans wrote:
| "Greg Farris" wrote
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| 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
|