Flight Design's Hybrid Engine

Daidalos · Post by **Daidalos** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 1:15 am

Flight Design is experimenting with a new engine.

Link to story
http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/Fl ... 078-1.html

vwvectors · Post by **vwvectors** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:09 am

I wuz under the impression that the 914 developed 115hp not 130hp .Maybe they cranked up the boost for the turbo .

Daidalos · Post by **Daidalos** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:35 pm

You can see a picture of the engine on the AOPA site. Slide 6 of the Aero show pictures. You can clearly see the electric motor.

Between the electric motor and batteries I wonder how much weight it will add? Maybe it's not meant for the LSA market.

tech10002 · Post by **tech10002** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:11 pm

That's gonna be one heavy sucker with the 50 pounds plus of batts, motor, and controller. Maybe we can get an LSA gross weight increase for "hybrids." LOL

sethdallob · Post by **sethdallob** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 12:20 am

Seems to be a lot of extra complexity and crap for little benefit....