C-150 turbine time!!!

In article , Morgans wrote:
What do you have, then? An old airplane with enough power to pull it apart?
Hmmm.

Well, not really. The tow plane at our glider club was built in 1946 and
originally had a Gipsy inline 4 cylinder engine of 85 hp.

It now has an O-320 of 160 hp, and regularly has a glider attached to
the other end. Performance is great when the glider is not attached!

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Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man
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"Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee"

Dylan Smith wrote:
In article . com,
Sport Pilot wrote:
They make turbine jet engines for model airplanes now. I even
recall
someone attaching a ring gear to the impeller and making a turbo
prop
out of it. So a turbo prop C 150 would not be impossible.

Someone made a turbojet powered Cri-Cri (a single seat aircraft
normally
powered by two small two-stroke engines on small pylons off the
nose).
The cheapest twinjet time in the world!

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Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man
Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net
Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net
"Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee"

Yes, the turbojet Cri-Cri was powered by two model airplane turbines,
the largest available. I think they were over 30 lbs thrust each.

Ron Natalie wrote:

There was a Turbine Luscombe or something like that kicking around
for a while.

There still is. It was built by the Luscombe Foundation here in AZ.
It's a classic example of why turbines and small low flying aircraft
are not a good mix. The 150 hp turbine burns about 16 gph in cruise.
With the Luscombe's small fuel capacity, range is pretty miserable.
The only incident I've heard of with the plane was... wait for it...
fuel starvation!

All in all, it's a very interesting exercise in design and
engineering, but as a practical mod, it's a flop.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)