Engines

Swift Fuel’s announcement that it’s bailing out of the FAA’s troubled Piston Aviation Fuels Initiative had an inevitability about it. Following the FAA’s announcement in June that it was suspending work on finding suitable unleaded replacements for 100LL, a not-that-subtle whiff of a certain metaphor related to chairs on the deck of a doomed ocean […]

Electroair has launched the design approval project to provide an alternative to a troublesome magneto that has a history of service difficulties and is on about 6,000 engines. The Bendix D2000/D3000 Dual Magneto, which operates two conventional mags off a single drive, has been a maintenance headache and safety concern for years. Electroair’s answer is […]

The surge in pilot training has been good for the engine business and Lycoming CEO Mike Kraft says he’s hopeful it will be sustained. In a podcast interview at AirVenture 2018, Kraft said the legacy engine maker has kept innovating and adapting to the changing market and many of the biggest changes are invisible. For […]

Lycoming’s Mike Kraft says the training market is keeping things humming at his plant. An order for 200 of its most expensive and technologically advanced engines doesn’t hurt either. AVweb’s Russ Niles spoke with Kraft at AirVenture 2018. Duration: File Size: download here

To say that aviation development and market uptake moves glacially is an insult to glaciers everywhere, or at least the piles of dirty snow that pass for glaciers in a world where average summer temperatures make Venus look temperate. I can develop a fairly long list, but let’s consider diesel engines for the moment. These […]

Now that the FAA has temporarily halted testing on an unleaded avgas replacement, a Kansas company says it may revive efforts to develop anti-detonation injection for light aircraft. By injecting a water-methanol mixture into the cylinders, so-called ADI allows engines that would otherwise require 100-octane fuel to burn lower octane. The injected mixture suppresses detonation […]

With the engine overhaul and aftermarket parts business growing ever more competitive, Superior Air Parts announced this week that it’s extending the warranty on its Millennium cylinder line to 37 months. A longer warranty will also apply to other components Superior markets into the field overhaul segment. “We feel like we’ve made some significant strides […]

With the engine overhaul and aftermarket parts business growing ever more competitive, Superior Air Parts announced this week that it’s extending the warranty on its Millennium cylinder line to 37 months. A longer warranty will also apply to other components Superior markets into the field overhaul segment. In this AVweb podcast, Superior’s Scott Hayes explains […]

My friend and fellow blogger Paul Berge revealed what a sheltered life he has led when he confessed in last week’s blog to not knowing the significance of Sidney, New York. At the expense of appearing a boorish know it all—as opposed to just a boor—I can say that I most certainly did know the […]

Blackhawk Modifications has announced that its subsidiary, Vector-Hawk Aerospace, will be offering the company’s Blackhawk XP67A Engine+ Upgrade STC kit for the Beechcraft King Air 350ER. The kit is aimed at special mission applications and was recently approved by the FAA for aircraft at up to 17,500 pounds maximum allowable takeoff weight. Blackhawk is offering […]