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Higher, Faster, Stronger
...picking up infrared heat. In the simplest sense, a turbo installation is merely the addition of a turbo-supercharger device with two main components. Think of the turbine as an encased...
The Ultimate Upgrade
...flow pack, which controls turbine bleed air used for cabin pressurization. Other items seen include the brake fluid reservoir, a ground bus bar, and two ammeter shunts. The space between...
See Fit
...one of the very early flights of a United B-727, Flight 227, where a crew transitioning from props to turbines failed to account for the inherent turbine power lag and...
SubSonex
...PIC The FAA is always a little uneasy when it comes to the word “turbine.” Despite the SubSonex being a single-engine sport plane, the fact that it has a turbine...
Bush Hog
...Prices for the kits are advertised as $120,000 for the piston version and $10,000 more for the turbine. Quickbuild prices are $216,000 and $234,000, with the price differences piston/turbine being...
Kerosene Dreams
...the next detent, and the turbine starts sucking and squeezing air. At the next detent, the turbine spins faster, a pump squirts a steady stream of fuel into the combustion...
The Ultimate Upgrade
...a Pratt & Whitney PT6-A turbine. When the Lancair IV-P took to the sky it was arguably the ultimate cross-country airplane. With its speed—claimed to be nearly 300 knots true...
Alternative Energies
...turbines are large, sometimes topping more than 300 feet, with huge blades that critics say threaten birds and bats and create a low-frequency noise that causes something called wind-turbine syndrome,...
2014 Kit Aircraft Buyer’s Guide
...of the spectrum from the Turbine Evolution is Sonex Aircraft’s Onex. You could probably buy a fleet of 50 Onex airplanes for the price of a single Turbine Evolution, but...
Power and Heat
...which only experience full combustion temperature intermittently and have time to cool between cycles, the turbine blades in the hot section of a gas turbine are continuously immersed in the...
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Error Chain
First flight surprise! There's a reason you should follow the plans when installing a canopy latch. By Mike Newell.