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 Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 8:41 pm Post subject: Rotax 912 in Drones... |
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Hello Kolber’s,
Uncle Sam is using the Rotax 912 is in some of the drones that we are now sharing the skies with. My guess is “we” are the deep pocket that allowed for the development of the fuel injection upgrade project.
Nick Cassara
Palmer Alaska
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lcottrell
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 9:14 pm Post subject: Rotax 912 in Drones... |
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With their record of Toilet seats and hammers, kind of makes you wonder what they are paying for them.
Larry
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Nick Cassara <nickc(at)mtaonline.net (nickc(at)mtaonline.net)> wrote:
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Hello Kolber’s,
Uncle Sam is using the Rotax 912 is in some of the drones that we are now sharing the skies with. My guess is “we” are the deep pocket that allowed for the development of the fuel injection upgrade project.
Nick Cassara
Palmer Alaska
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beauford
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 6:38 am Post subject: Rotax 912 in Drones... |
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Brother Cassara:
The Predator UAV’s ( both the RQ-1 and the armed MQ-1) use a 115 hp. special variant of the 914F engine… not the similar 912 series used on Kolbs. The military 914F used/uses
pressure compensating Bing carbs, not F.I. . The 914 did marginally well on the RQ-1, but was pushed very hard and had a relatively short service life.
The developed and somewhat heavier version of the bird (R/MQ-9 Reaper) dropped the Rotax completely and went to a version of the Garrett TPE-331 turboprop flat rated at around
600 hp…quite a jump…and giving you an idea of just how hard the Rotax 914’s had to be driven to make mission on the Predator. IMHO it is a credit to the inherent soundness of
the Rotax 4-strokes that they held together as well as they did under brutal service conditions…They ran their guts out, all day, every day… month after month.
Ought to make the Kolbers who fly with a 912 feel pretty good about their engines…however expensive…
Worth what ye paid fer it…
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Uncle Sam is using the Rotax 912 is in some of the drones that we are now sharing the skies with. My guess is “we” are the deep pocket that allowed for the development of the fuel injection upgrade project.
Nick Cassara
Palmer Alaska
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Dennis Thate
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 7:44 am Post subject: Re: Rotax 912 in Drones... |
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[quote="nickc(at)mtaonline.net"]Hello Kolber’s,
Uncle Sam is using the Rotax 912 is in some of the drones that we are now sharing the skies with. My guess is “we” are the deep pocket that allowed for the development of the fuel injection upgrade project.
Nick Cassara
Palmer Alaska
Their right in our own backyards http://blog.chron.com/newswatch/2012/03/police-drone-test-flight-crashes-near-houston/
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russkinne(at)mac.com
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 4:43 pm Post subject: Rotax 912 in Drones... |
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LarryI'm sure it's a wild price! -- but surely you know that a lot of the inflated cost of hammers etc goes to supporting the clandestine-services budget?
Can't beat it; got to accept it. At least it's well spent.
Russ K
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Larry
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Hello Kolber’s,
Uncle Sam is using the Rotax 912 is in some of the drones that we are now sharing the skies with. My guess is “we” are the deep pocket that allowed for the development of the fuel injection upgrade project.
Nick Cassara
Palmer Alaska
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