Turbine Duke

[Groundpounder]

The guy that designed the turbine mod for the Malibu has now come up with a mod that throws PT-6's on the Duke. I think it looks pretty **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** sexy!

http://www.pilotjournal.com/content/2005/julyaug/301_knots.html

 

[USMCmech]

Interesting,


Get rid of the Dukes unreliable engines, and now maybe mechanics won't run away.


91 kt Vmc though, that's pretty fast to be scooting down the runway.

 

[Milkdud99]

Dookie???

 

[Pugh]

Nice. And those Dukes are great looking planes as it is.

 

[Vladimir Lenin]

now that's a sweet bird...300 knots on 62 gals of kerosene at 2.80 a gallon vs. 220 knots on 45 gals of avgas at 3.30 a gallon

173.60-148.50=25 bux for 80 extra knots

and none of the 1,200 hour overhaul bull**CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED**

plus it looks freagin sweet

 

[Diesel]

Looks like the cg is pretty far forward. If i remember the CG is a normal duke is pretty far foward with just two pilots.

 

[Groundpounder]

According to the article, you'll be spending pretty close to $1 million for one of these birds. Can't you get a pretty decent King Air 90 for that much?

 

[Vladimir Lenin]

a90 would burn more and its slower

 

[Diesel]

an a90 can be bought for under 600k

 

[wheelsup]

Looks like the cg is pretty far forward. If i remember the CG is a normal duke is pretty far foward with just two pilots.

According to the article, they've thought of that:

The lost weight came out of a fairly forward CG position, and that shifted the balance point well aft. In order to rebalance the envelope, Conrad relocated both batteries to the nose, as far forward as possible. Also, mounting turbine engines repositioned the props three inches farther forward. Collectively, these changes offset the lighter engines and restored the balance.

~wheelsup