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Re:The $20 an hour Cessna 172 experiment by bombcar on Thursday February 09, 2023 @02:45PM (#34730168)
Yeah, all the development that IS going on is happening in the very light jet market: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_light_jet

But that's a $2m aircraft vs a half-million one.

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Re:The $20 an hour Cessna 172 experiment by ben7799 on Thursday February 09, 2023 @03:01PM (#34730470)
If he actually got this V8 certified and Cessna switched to then it might be dirt cheap to run but the 172 with it preinstalled might be $1M because they will sell so few and have so much engineering & certification cost to amortize.

That's how silly it all is, and why it will stay stuck in Experimental.

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Re:The $20 an hour Cessna 172 experiment by jabl on Thursday February 09, 2023 @03:46PM (#34731178)
VLJ's are cute, yes. I'm slightly hopeful about small scale turboprops too. Yes, generally turbines don't scale down very well (well, applies to VLJ's to an extent as well), but if they only could make the capital costs of a turbine decent enough, the reliability, power/weight, and cheap and available Jet A-1 would still make such a thing attractive, I think.

There's a couple of companies working in this space:

Turbaero: https://turb.aero/ Turbotech: https://www.turbotech-aero.com/

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