question about engines

"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

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

In article . com,
says...


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 . . .




That's it :

http://www.orendarecip.com/index2.htm

I agree they seem to have quieted down a lot over the past couple of years.
Sure doies seem like a hard sell - the principal attractiveness of a KingAir
is the performance and reliability of a pair of PT6A's - then to go and put
recuiprocating engines in it . . .

look for Thunder engine


"John" wrote in message
ups.com...
|
| 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
|

In article ,
says...


look for Thunder engine



Found it !
http://www.intandem.com/NewPrideSite...esson2_13.html

Jim Macklin wrote:
look for Thunder engine

The same engine as in the Thunder Mustang? Sheesh, I know the plane
has eaten some folks' lunches . . . but what a beauty

John

John wrote:

Jim Macklin wrote:

look for Thunder engine


The same engine as in the Thunder Mustang?


Nobody with a brain cell left takes turbines out of a King Air and puts
in pistons.

Or switches from a P&W PT6 to a Walter
"Newps" wrote in message
. ..
|
|
| John wrote:
|
| Jim Macklin wrote:
|
| look for Thunder engine
|
|
| The same engine as in the Thunder Mustang?
|
|
| Nobody with a brain cell left takes turbines out of a King
Air and puts
| in pistons.

Jim Macklin wrote:
Or switches from a P&W PT6 to a Walter
"Newps" wrote in message
. ..
|
|
| John wrote:
|
| Jim Macklin wrote:
|
| look for Thunder engine
|
|
| The same engine as in the Thunder Mustang?
|
|
| Nobody with a brain cell left takes turbines out of a King
Air and puts
| in pistons.

Jim -

I agree with you on all kinds of levels . . . it was just a
conversation. There may have been a business case . . . but I sure
never saw it

Hi John

I was the primary draftsman for the Thunder Mustang. To date I only
personally know of about 4 of them that are flying. I suspect there
another 4 or 5 I don't know about. From the parts and engines we
manufactured there could be as many as 25 of them flying.

To date the only accident involving injuries that I am aware of was the
crash of the prototype.
Have there been any more accidents?

I have to admit the when we put it paper it was pretty obvious it was a
hot airplane and that people would kill themselves in it. I am bit
surprised it hasn't been worse. But maybe the fact that it is obviously
a hot airplane that deserves respect has contributed to this.

Brian

John wrote:
Jim Macklin wrote:
look for Thunder engine

The same engine as in the Thunder Mustang? Sheesh, I know the plane
has eaten some folks' lunches . . . but what a beauty

John