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1975
1975 - 1200.PDF
54 AERO PISTON-ENGINES SURVEY Displacement 33 cu in, 540 c.c. Compression ratio 7-2:1. Take-off 24 h.p. at 0-861b/h.p./hr at sea level. Height 10-2in, 260mm. Width 9-8in, 250mm. Length 17-7in, 450mm. Weight 331b, 15kg. Application Borzecki Altostratus (1X 24 h.p. 2RB). CICARE (Argentine) C.C.24, Saladillo, Polvaredes, Provincia de Buenos Aires. Formed in 1972 to develop and manufacture light-aircraft piston engines and light helicopters, Cicare tested its first unit, the 69 h.p. 4C2T, in 1973. The engine is intended as a successor to US-built low-power units which are used in Argentinian light fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft. 4C2T Four-cylinder horizontally opposed air-cooled two- stroke. Geared drive. Normally aspirated. Bore 2-91in, 74mm. Stroke 3 • OOin, 76mm. Displacement 80 • 18 cu in, 1 • 31it. Compression ratio 7-2:1. Fuel 80 octane with 1:40 lubricating oil. Take-off 69 h.p. at 0-661b/h.p./hr. Height 21-65in, 550mm. Width 25-98m, 660mm. Length 31-89in, 810mm. Weight 1501b, 68kg. CLUTTON (United Kingdom) 92 Newlands Road, Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. A modified version of the 1,500 c.c. Volkswagen car engine has been developed by Mr Clutton and has been flown in the Clutton Fred Srs 2. CURTTSS-WRIGHT (USA) Wood-Ridge Facility, One Passaic Street, Wood-Ridge, New Jersey 07075. Curtiss-Wright holds the US rights to the NSU-Wankel rotating-combustion (RC) engine and has a number of general-aviation applications under consideration for it. Existing engines are the 200 h.p. RC2-75, the 310 h.p. RC2-90 and 310 h.p. RC2-75. The RC2-60 has flown in a modified Cessna 177RG Cardinal and Hughes T-55 helicopter. Curtiss-Wright also continues to manufacture spare parts for several models of its earlier and well known series of radial piston engines, in particular the R-1820 and R-3350. FICHTEL & SACHS (West Germany) 872 Schweinfurt, Postfach 52. Fichtel & Sachs manufactures a wide variety of automotive products including a range of low-power two-stroke piston engines and Wankel rotating-combustion engines. Several of these powerplants have been adapted for aircraft propulsion, including the 10 h.p. KM-48 rotating com bustion unit in a Schleicher Ka8 sailplane and a 35 h.p. unit in a Kranich III sailplane. Sachs Wankel engines have also been used in Rhein-Flugzeugbau's fan-pod experi ments; a KM-48 powers the Fan Pod SG 85, which was experimentally flown in a Blanik sailplane last year. In addition Sachs Tandem Wankel engines are flying in the RFB Sirius I and Sirius II powered sailplanes. FRANKLIN (USA) PO Box 8, Syracuse, New York 13208. Basic engines in the Franklin series are the 5 • 51it and 5-751it six-cylinder 6A and 6V units for fixed- and rotary- wing applications. These are now being supplemented by a new range of horizontally opposed engines, in particular the 125 h.p. Sport 4, which powers the Aerocar Imp, Duruble RD-03B Edelweiss, K & S McLeod Point 5 Cavalier, Pilot Sprite and Stewart JDZ FF Foo Fighter. An earlier engine is the 60 h.p. 2A-120, installed in the Al-Aire AL-2 Tijerete, VTC SSV-17 and Wallis WA-121 autogyro. 6A GA-350 Six-cylinder, horizontally opposed, air-cooled. Displacement 350 cu in, 5 • 71it. Compression ratio 10-5:1. Fuel 100/130 octane.' Take-off 220 h.p. Height 25-25in, 641mm. Width 31-3in, 795mm. Length 37-5in, 953mm. Weight 3291b, 149kg. (these details relate to the 6A-350-C1 and -CIA). Applications Aerocar Model III (1X185 h.p. 6A-350). Aerospatiale MS.894 Rallye 220 GT (1X 220 h.p. 6A-350-C1). Hirth Akrostar Mklll (1X220 h.p. 6A-350). Maule M-4 FUCHT International, lOluly 1975 Strata-Rocket (1X220 h.p. 6A-350-C1). Maule M5-220C Lunar-Rocket (1X220 h.p. 6A-350). Merkel Mark II (1X220 h.p. 6A-350-CI). Silvercraft SH-4 (1X220 h.p. 6A-350-D1). 6A-350 and 6V-350 Helicopter versions of the 6A-350. Application Continental Copters El Tomcat Mk 111C (1X235 h.p. 6V-350-A). 6A-335 Similar to the 6A-350 but of 335 cu in, 5-491it displacement. Compression ratio 7-0:1. Fuel 80/87 octane. Take-off 180 h.p. Height 25-25in, 641mm. Width 31-3in, 795mm. Length 37-5in, 953mm. Weight 3191b, 144-6kg. (These details relate to the A6-335-B and Bl.) Application Aerocar Super Coot Model-A (1X180 h.p. A6-335). Maule M-4 Astro-Rocket (1 X180 h.p. 6A-335-B1A). 6AS and 6V-335 Helicopter version of the 6A-335. Applications Continental Copters El Tomcat Mk 111C (1X210 h.p. 6V-335-A). Helicopter Technik Skytrac 1 (1X260 h.p. 6AS-335-B). GESCHWENDER AEROMOTIVE (USA) PO Box 5152, Lincoln, Nebr 68505. This company has Ford V8 conversions and other engines under development for homebuilt aircraft. HINDUSTAN AERONAUTICS (India) PO Box 5150, Indian Express Building, Vidhana, Veedhi, Bangalore-560001. The Bangalore Division of HAL, in addition to its manu facture of turbine aero engines, is developing a 250 h.p. piston engine, the HPE-2. HPE-2 Six-cylinder, horizontally opposed, air-cooled. Direct drive. Normally aspirated. Displacement 472 cu in, 7-751it. Compression ratio 8-7:1. Fuel 100/130 octane. Take-off 250 h.p. Height 20-lin, 510mm. Width 43in, 865mm. Length 43-3in, 1,100mm. Weight 4101b, 186kg. Application Hindustan Aeronautics HA-31 Mk II. HIRTH MOTOREN (West Germany) 7141 Benningen/Neckar, Postfach 20 Following reports of trading problems at Hirth Motoren, one of Germany's oldest aero-engine companies, the Hirth series of low-power piston-engines is no longer available for aviation applications. Hirth-powered installations alreadv flying include the Akaflieg Karlsruhe AK-1 (1 X26 h.p. F10A), Akaflieg Stuttgart FS-26 (1X26 h.p. Hirth- Solo), Blessing Rebell (1X54 h.p. 028), Espenlaub Espe-37T (2X26 h.p. F10), Kaiser K.ll (1X26 h.p. F10). Scheibe SF-27M (1X26 h.p. Hirth-Solo), Scheibe Motors- patz and Motorfalke (1X26 h.p. F10) and Schleicher As-K14 (1X26 h.p. F10 Kla). The 28 h.p. RE 0194 and 36 h.p. RE17 have also been supplied for sailplane con versions. A 60 to 65 h.p. model of 720 c.c. had also been under development exclusively for Bede Aircraft. This has now been replaced by the Japanese Xenoah engine (see comments on page 50). A. G. IVCHENKO (USSR) The most widely used piston engine in service in Russia today is the 300 h.p. Ivchenko A1-14RF nine-cylinder, single-row radial. Applications include the Antonov An-14 Pchelka and the Yakovlev Yak-18 series of primary trainers, and the PZL-104 Wilga 35 light, general-purpose aircraft. JACOBS-PAGE (see Page Industries, page 55) JAROSLAW JANOWSKI (Poland) Lodz 11, ul. Nowomiejska 2129. The Saturn 500 is under development to power amateur- built ultra-light aircraft. Saturn 500 Two-cylinder, horizontally opposed, air-cooled two-stroke. Direct drive. Normally aspirated with two carburettors. Bore 2-76in, 70mm. Stroke 2-56in, 65mm. Displacement 30-5 cu in, 500cc. Compression ratio 8-5:1. Fuel, 90 octane gasoline with lubricating oil. Take-off 25 h.p. at 0-701b/h.p./hr. Width 20-27in, 515mm. Length 16-93in, 430mm. Weight 59-51b, 27kg.
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