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Re:The $20 an hour Cessna 172 experiment by docandrew on Thursday February 09, 2023 @05:27PM (#34732574)
It seems like kind of a slam dunk, though I wonder about the reliability of a car engine left at full-throttle (or close to it) for long periods of time the way airplane engines are.
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Re:The $20 an hour Cessna 172 experiment by tonyarkles on Thursday February 09, 2023 @08:04PM (#34734213)
That’s part of the secret if you head over to the Corsair website: https://corsairpower.com/. They’ve significantly derated the engine with a custom ECU and added a gearbox to better match prop RPM to engine RPM. They’re rating it at “conservatively” (their words) 3000 hours TBO.
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