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    LS1 Engine for aircraft?

    Aircraft engines and automotive engines are very different. I have worked on plenty of both. Aircraft engines were designed very weight conscious. I have been amazed by how thin the material of the rotating assembly is. The reason a Lycoming has the rolling counter weights is to smooth out the...
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    LS1 Engine for aircraft?

    What I ment was comparing a liquid cooled V engine to an air cooled flat engine as far as viability as an aircraft engine. The general architecture is similer to a Merlin, not to the perfrmance, size, or complexity.
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    LS1 Engine for aircraft?

    The thing I don't understand is, why everybody keeps comparing auto conversions to lycomings. It is like comparing apples to oranges. If you want a fair compairison why not compair it to a Merlin.
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    LS1 Engine for aircraft?

    The new LS7 would be an ideal canadate. It is built with titanium rods, forged crank, aluminum block, and sodium filled exaust valves. Not to mention the dry sump system. At 427 ci. it has plenty of displacment.400hp for take off and 300hp for cruse is not unresonable. But, on the down side they...
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    News - APAME Announces Electric Flight

    Electric powered aircraft may seem silly now, but look at R/C aircraft. They have come a long way. Some motor efficiencies are now over 90%. The simplicity of electric power is what I like about it. No primeing, no inlet fires, no "I hope it starts", no mixture to adjust, no oil leaks, no mags...
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    News - APAME Announces Electric Flight

    Electic airplanes do have some advantages over piston aircraft. Besides eliminating emisions to stop the second ice age,er, the hole in the ozone, er, global warming, er, global climate change or what ever the latest impending disaster that is ,of course,are fault, they are extremly simple...
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