A full-feathering propeller permits one propeller to achieve a very high pitch when an engine fails on a two-engine aircraft. RPM is maintained by the angle, or pitch, of the propeller blades during flight. The constant speed propeller lets the pilot choose the revolutions per minute (RPM) desired. The basic design of variable pitch propellers serves different purposes. Variable pitch propellers allow a pilot to adjust the position of the propellers and engine speed for any situation while flying, maintaining the most efficient engine thrust. Ed.You'll find the blue lever is for changing the pitch of the propeller or "feathering"ĭue to the normal twist of a propeller blade, some sections are still not completely aligned with airflow and produce more normal force and drag than they would if all sections could be aligned with airflow at the same time, but in total those forces will cancel out, and the propeller stops windmilling. Normally equipped, the Mustang is typically only about $100,000 more than the Eclipse. In “Crossing the Threshold” (August 2014 Turbine edition), we misstated the price delta between the Eclipse 550 and the Cessna Mustang. Landing distance over 50-ft obstacle | 1,000 ft Takeoff distance over 50-ft obstacle | 900-1,200 ft
Powerplant | 420-shp Rolls-Royce 250 or 500-shp P&W PT6
Pete Bedell is a pilot for a major airline and co-owner of a Cessna 172 and Beechcraft Baron D55. And where avgas is becoming prohibitively expensive, or scarce, the ability to burn Jet-A makes a lot of sense.
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On the plus side, the turbine-powered Bonanzas provide safety, reliability, and performance.
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Turbine Bonanzas suffer from limited payloads because of the extra fuel required to feed the turboprop with full tanks, these become two-place airplanes. With their abundance of power, both airplanes are bucking against their respective redlines at lower altitudes. That’s around 165 KIAS, depending on conversion. Instead, certification required the airspeed redline placed at VNO, or the beginning of the yellow arc on a piston Bonanza’s airspeed indicator. Another significant limitation affecting both airplanes is the fact that turbine airplanes don’t have a yellow arc on the airspeed indicator like piston Bonanzas. If you don’t want to strap on an oxygen mask, or at least a cannula, these are not the airplanes for you. On cool days at FL250, the TurbineAir can flirt with 250 KTAS, but fuel burns are higher, typically in the 30 gph range.īoth airplanes’ big limitation is lack of pressurization. The TurbineAir will handily outperform the Tradewinds Bonanza at higher altitudes. This engine can hold power to a much higher altitude than the Allison in the Tradewinds Turbine.
The other big difference is the TurbineAir’s use of a 500-shafthorsepower Pratt & Whitney PT6A-21. Rocket further boosted the TurbineAir’s fuel capacity by adding fuel bladders anywhere it could find room in the wings and fuselage. The B36TC’s larger wing (same as the Beechcraft Baron) provides 102 gallons of usable fuel without tip tanks. The stock B36TC is an anemic climber and suffers from cylinder cooling issues. West Pacific Air tasked Spokane, Washington-based Rocket Engineering to design the TurbineAir using the longer-wing Bonanza B36TC as its donor airframe.
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