facthunter Posted January 23, 2024 Posted January 23, 2024 NOT all shrouded and cowled like in the car/van. Nev 1
BrendAn Posted January 23, 2024 Posted January 23, 2024 On 22/01/2024 at 7:24 AM, raven said: When I was young, Limbach, Germany, took air-cooled VW car engines and converted loads of them to safer yet more powerful aircraft engines mainly due to their initial light weight and opposed design. Many were produced although a batch of dual ignition magneto's caused a bunch of engine outs including our plane, a stol Protech. I believe they were popular for some time. Subaru engines did not prove to have the reliability from what I saw back then. Going forward, the moment battery technology can 'halve' the weight of lithium batteries, electric motors will take off like mad I believe as the compact size, massive torque, cooling, noise, no flammable liquids etc etc make them far superior. In motorcycles, last year, saw some of the first weight-matching, distance-matching battery/elec bikes. Quick release battery swap cassettes for light aircraft would obviouly be necessary at many locations. from what i understand limbach are the cream of vw aircraft conversions.
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