Light aircraft crash at Heck Field 27/01/26

[BrendAn]

1 hour ago, facthunter said:

 I personally think the chev Alloy V8 is a reasonable Motor  for Aircraft, and said so BEFORE it was used in glider towing. It's NOT their High Performance engine though. It's a 2 valve Pushrod Motor. The Mercury V8 Motor is a very specialised Product. The Chev. alloy Block wouldn't like sea water. Even Cast iron doesn't. Nev

seven marine have ls chev v8 outboards. closed loop cooling.  i think the mercury 600 hp v12 outboard is closed loop to.

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52 minutes ago, Love to fly said:

Umm a 70-horsepower Continental CD-170 engine is not a Mercedes diesel. There may have been some design input etc, but a Mercedes it isn't.  and Continental have a lot of experience building aviation engines.

. for a start its 170 hp , thats one option.  the company that was modifying mercedes diesels for aircraft was taken over by continental and now they build the complete engine but it is still based on the mercedes design.

Edited February 3 by BrendAn

[BurnieM]

Is there a way to split this engine reliability discussion off from the original "Light aircraft crash at Heck Field" discussion ?

 

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4 minutes ago, BurnieM said:

Is there a way to split this engine reliability discussion off from the original "Light aircraft crash at Heck Field" discussion ?

 

Good idea. Red750 might be able to move it and give it a title

[red750]

The discussion started with the second last post on page 3. We are now on page 6. I don't know how to split off and transfer so much of a topic. 

 

I have opened a new topic in the Engines and Props forum. All further posts on this subject are to be switched to that forum/topic.

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Turboplanner's reply has been transferred to Aero engines vs Auto engines