• gramie@lemmy.ca
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    10 hours ago

    Thanks for the additional information. Everything newer seems to be Rotax now. Except there was one guy who had a Corvette engine in his Cessna. Other pilots were talking about how it has so much torque his rudder isn’t big enough to compensate.

    Hopefully in 5 or 10 years, everything will be electric!

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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      10 hours ago

      I mean Rotax is kicking some ass, they’ve got a 160 horsepower engine now, weirdly enough out of the same displacement as the 912S. Imagine if they made a 6 cylinder variant, damn thing could make 300 horsepower easy.

      I cannot think of a reason to use a Corvette engine in an airplane other than “fuck it.”