Piper aircraft also has a single engine version of the Navajo on the paper somewhere. The engine will be located on the tail DC-10 style... looks weird...
N231YE From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 2, posted (2 years 3 days 7 hours ago) and read 9944 times:
Quoting Francoflier (Reply 1): Piper aircraft also has a single engine version of the Navajo on the paper somewhere. The engine will be located on the tail DC-10 style... looks weird...
Its good that you brought that up...it was all over the cover of the last Flying Magazine.
Starlionblue From Greenland, joined Feb 2004, 13036 posts, RR: 57 Reply 3, posted (2 years 3 days 7 hours ago) and read 9934 times:
Sure looks neat, but I bet the calculations for that combined nacelle/tailcone will be a bitch. Also, you are cutting off quite a bit of airflow to the engine.
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Francoflier From France, joined Oct 2001, 1509 posts, RR: 3 Reply 6, posted (2 years 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 9871 times:
Quoting Starlionblue (Reply 3): Sure looks neat, but I bet the calculations for that combined nacelle/tailcone will be a bitch. Also, you are cutting off quite a bit of airflow to the engine.
Now that you mention it...
From an amateur glance, there sure might a problem provding the ONLY engine with enough undisturbed airflow in high angle of attack & high power scenarios (the very scenarios that are already critical enough).
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ATCme From United States, joined Dec 2005, 304 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (2 years 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 9808 times:
Don't forget the Cirrus Jet, which is yet to be unveiled (mock-up or prototype), but is supposedly a single engine 4 place jet (couldn't you tell by the name- Jet?).
Also the Piper Jet was featured in Flying.
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BHMBAGLOCK From United States, joined Jul 2005, 2680 posts, RR: 22 Reply 13, posted (2 years 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 9777 times:
Quoting Pilotpip (Reply 11): I assume you mean that it had a diesel engine installed under an STC?
Probably a Garrett turbine actually. There are several STCs out there for Cessnas. Much more common in a 206 & up but there are some smaller Cessnas that have been modified as well.
Blackbird From United States, joined Oct 1999, 3436 posts, RR: 5 Reply 16, posted (2 years 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 9609 times:
What I was thinking of to be absolutely honest, would be a very simple, very basic Cessna 152 / Cessna 172 / Piper PA-28 Archer type of airplane, with simple old dials and gauges, cable controls, and a lightweight, basic, yet sturdy design, with speed equal to that of an MD-80/B-737.
The idea would be to keep it nice and simple, basic, easy to hand-fly, and a reasonable auto-pilot.
SCCutler From United States, joined Jan 2000, 3849 posts, RR: 23 Reply 18, posted (2 years 2 days ago) and read 9582 times:
Quoting Blackbird (Reply 16): What I was thinking of to be absolutely honest, would be a very simple, very basic Cessna 152 / Cessna 172 / Piper PA-28 Archer type of airplane, with simple old dials and gauges, cable controls, and a lightweight, basic, yet sturdy design, with speed equal to that of an MD-80/B-737.
The idea would be to keep it nice and simple, basic, easy to hand-fly, and a reasonable auto-pilot.
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While I would dearly love to see an affordable jet airplane, what you suggest sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. There is a reason why single-pilot-certified jets are required to have operational autopilots and FMS.
It's not just the aircraft that are complicated and demanding in the flight levels, it's the environment. A certain degree of complexity is necessary to have a reasonable chance at a good safety record.
Just MHO.
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Dougloid From France, joined Jul 2005, 7981 posts, RR: 47 Reply 19, posted (2 years 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 9503 times:
Gulfstream had a single engine executive jet project a while ago that never got built. It was going to be powered by a single JT15D4, which is as close to dead ass reliable as you can get.
Tito mentions the Visionaire project, and there is a prototype but the company's defunct. They built a pretty good sized building in Ames Iowa to build the thing but the project went wayyyyyyy over budget and out of time. There is a guy named Matt Eller around here who bought up everything out of the bankruptcy for about $450,000.
Here's an interesting article on what's now known as Eviation. There are plans to build it in Brazil.
SlamClick From United States, joined Nov 2003, 9994 posts, RR: 72 Reply 20, posted (2 years 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 9465 times:
I posted the L-39 because whatever the factories come up with will have to compete on a cost-per-seat basis. Besides it is cool. I see one about once a month, all year long.
I still like my idea for the T-37. While it is not real pretty, I can picture it with a strong, reliable single fanjet, the two ejection seats replaced with four Recaro buckets, a modern panel, topped with a smoked canopy and a killer stereo.
You'd have a killer of a time converting that from a twin to a single...
And seeing how all the frames are now pretty old and all had a nice looooong life as trainers, it'd be like buying an overhauled driving school car.
Quoting SlamClick (Reply 20): topped with a smoked canopy and a killer stereo.
Ok, NOW we're talking!
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