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New rotary engine
In case you hadn't heard:
From AOPA:
The first flight of a Swiss-built, Wankel-based rotary aircraft engine, the turbocharged Mistral G-230-TS-B1A, occurred on April 4 aboard a Piper Arrow III at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. Mistral Engines of Geneva, Switzerland, developed the 230-horsepower engine. Early Mistral engines will be fueled by avgas or mogas, but there are plans to develop a jet-fueled model. When testing is complete, the firm plans to first offer 230- and 190-hp models to the experimental aircraft community while certification is in progress. More powerful engines are on the horizon. No prices were announced, but there is an estimated 3,000-hour TBO. The Mistral engine is similar in some respects to the Mazda rotary engine, a mount homebuilders have experimented with for 25 years.
In case you hadn't heard:
From AOPA:
The first flight of a Swiss-built, Wankel-based rotary aircraft engine, the turbocharged Mistral G-230-TS-B1A, occurred on April 4 aboard a Piper Arrow III at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. Mistral Engines of Geneva, Switzerland, developed the 230-horsepower engine. Early Mistral engines will be fueled by avgas or mogas, but there are plans to develop a jet-fueled model. When testing is complete, the firm plans to first offer 230- and 190-hp models to the experimental aircraft community while certification is in progress. More powerful engines are on the horizon. No prices were announced, but there is an estimated 3,000-hour TBO. The Mistral engine is similar in some respects to the Mazda rotary engine, a mount homebuilders have experimented with for 25 years.
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