they bought SMA technology, we fly SMA since 4 years, our 182 already flew 1000 hours.. no cylinders broke, no gear box .. we already did 2100 tandem jumps and we love it .. hope TCM will build a 6 cylinders because we'd love to get 300+ hp
Lol.;..not an order of magnitude higher? What does a typical IO-360 cost? $35k? So this new diesel will be less than $350k...hmmm. I hope he meant less than double however even then, the price near $50 to $60k is not tempting.
don't count on it lasting all that long the reason diesel's last so long is that they are heavily built this is a plane engine it cant be that heavily built because of weight concerns unless regular airplane engines really suck it wont last all that much longer still its a great idea and it i had the money id get one
I'd love to see this come to market. Cheaper jet a is always nice as long as the cost of the engine doesn't outweigh the benefits. And if it's like automotive desiels it should last significantly longer than an av gas engine.
Aircraft engines should have been this way from the beginning. Long over due.
docrw 3 weeks ago
Europeen compagny? Lol, this is a french SAFRAN engine, made by Aerospatial and Renault companies, build under licence by TCM.
glup2glup 5 months ago
these things are a nightmare to work on
kmfdm665attak 7 months ago
they bought SMA technology, we fly SMA since 4 years, our 182 already flew 1000 hours.. no cylinders broke, no gear box .. we already did 2100 tandem jumps and we love it .. hope TCM will build a 6 cylinders because we'd love to get 300+ hp
PRISKABOOTIK1 1 year ago
Lol.;..not an order of magnitude higher? What does a typical IO-360 cost? $35k? So this new diesel will be less than $350k...hmmm. I hope he meant less than double however even then, the price near $50 to $60k is not tempting.
dtoften 1 year ago
i wonder could you run one of these on bio-diesel?
cormacorp 1 year ago
I hope the IO-470 series engines will be a target for their six-cylinder replacement. Lots of Barons, Bonanzam etc out there with these engines.
flyboy98 1 year ago
don't count on it lasting all that long the reason diesel's last so long is that they are heavily built this is a plane engine it cant be that heavily built because of weight concerns unless regular airplane engines really suck it wont last all that much longer still its a great idea and it i had the money id get one
ncktbs 1 year ago
I'd love to see this come to market. Cheaper jet a is always nice as long as the cost of the engine doesn't outweigh the benefits. And if it's like automotive desiels it should last significantly longer than an av gas engine.
mynameiskevinenglish 1 year ago
A very good and interesting video!
757Captainsim 1 year ago
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tulaconalas 1 year ago