{"id":195026,"date":"2008-08-02T08:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/02\/a-new-and-plausible-competitor-in-the-aviation-diesel-sweepstakes\/"},"modified":"2008-08-02T08:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T13:24:00","slug":"a-new-and-plausible-competitor-in-the-aviation-diesel-sweepstakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/02\/a-new-and-plausible-competitor-in-the-aviation-diesel-sweepstakes\/","title":{"rendered":"A New, and Plausible, Competitor in the Aviation Diesel Sweepstakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SMA light aircraft engines sent a rep to Oshkosh to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/07\/31\/226280\/oshkosh-2008-innovative-new-engine-steps-off-the-gas.html\">sing the praises of their new engine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What makes it different is that it&#8217;s designed to operate at 2,200 rpm, which means <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">no reduction gearing between the engine and the prop<\/span>, so the engine has a 2,000 hour TBO, and they expect to push it out to 3K hours, as compared to the gearbox on the Thielert, for example, that needed to be rebuilt\/replaced <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">every 300 hours<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s turbocharged, and rated at 230hp for five minutes and  200hp continuous up to 10,000 feet.<\/p>\n<p>It displaces 5 liters, which is larger than the 2.0 liter Thielert obviously, but my guess is that the swept volume (rpm x displacement) are probably pretty similar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMA light aircraft engines sent a rep to Oshkosh to sing the praises of their new engine. What makes it different is that it&#8217;s designed to operate at 2,200 rpm, which means no reduction gearing between the engine and the prop, so the engine has a 2,000 hour TBO, and they expect to push it &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}