Author: "923te" <923te@...> Time: Thu Aug 26, 2004 5:53 pm PDT Link
The RV with the turbine was reviewed in the Sport Aviation magazine in the past year or so. I'll look for my copy to confirm the numbers but what I recall is that they had only flown as fast as 160mph. They mentioned that they were unable to get all the horsepower out because of the exhaust plumbing was not long enough or ....
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From: Scott Bilinski
To: RV10@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 5:04 PM
Subject: Re: [RV10] Re: Turbine fuel burn
Yep, hit the nail on the head. I was amazed at the people ready to buy this
engine or already have, with out looking at the numbers..............cause
there are none! I honestly hope the people who have bought one of the
turbines, at least, get the HP they are promised.
At 04:59 PM 8/26/2004 +0000, you wrote:
>Innodyn has this info on their website:
>
>"Innodyn has been conducting test cell research on the Turbine since
>1997. The company has been flying an RV-4 with an Innodyn Turbine
>since 2002. In July 2004, along with Rivers Aeronautical, we've begun
>flight testing on the RV-6AT. We will have an additional test
>aircraft operational in the next several weeks."
>
>My concern is, if they have been flying since 2002 why don't they
>have numbers for cruise speed, climb rate and fuel consumption???
>They have been flying the RV-6AT since June/July 2004 and I have not
>seen any info on this platform either....
>
>Has anyone seen published or unpubublished performance numbers for
>either of the flying platforms? Perhaps they are only sending data to
>customers?
>
>Eric
>--- In RV10@yahoogroups.com, "jskorch1" <jskorch1@y...> wrote:
> > Has anyone heard or seen any data or speculation on what to expect
> > for performance on the innodyn turbines in an rv-10. I looked up
> > their website and it looks interesting but what are the specs?
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