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I have been thinking that my Kingcat is a lot of fun with 29lbs of thrust, but I have an opportunity to upgrade to 48lbs of thrust, anything that should be done, that I would need to watch for with a bigger engine? I know they've been flown with P200's, and AMT Olympus's, but have they been dialed down at all, or run wide open?
Thanks!
Jeremy
Jeremy
Reminds me of the time, back in the early 80's, the USAF did an engine upgrade to the KC-135 tanker. Took out the old TF33-PW-102 engines (rebuilt from the old commercial 707's) and replaced it with the new CFM56 high bypass-ratio turbofan engines. They tried to land one of them at Grand Forks, ND in the winter of '82 and the residual thrust at idle was so great they were still 80+ knots over landing speed. After a couple of tries they just shut down two of them and finally landed. They sent that bird back to Boeing and got the bugs worked out so they could land with all four engines running. That residual thrust gets you every time.
Roy