R680 Powered Beech 18

("Rick Durden" wrote)
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Now, as to putting an R-680 on a Beech 18 airframe that wasn't
originally designed for the small engines....well there are
'interesting' ideas all the time in aviation. Just yesterday I got
word of a guy who droped a Chevy V8 into a Cessna 150, used rubber
hoses for the fuel lines and couldn't seem to understand why the FAA
was a little less than understanding about the whole thing. Just
because he hadn't sought to get any sort of approval before deciding
to fly it...

Wonder if he took the engine out of his hot-rod Chevy Vega? You know the
Vega - Monster slicks in the rear (along with wheelie bars) and a gigantic
hood scoop for the engine. In about 1976, every neighborhood had one of
these creations - tooling around, doing burn-outs at stop signs, etc.

That was my first thought when I read your post ...can the pilot see over
the hood scoop?

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Montblack