"How it's Made" filming our engines (Lycoming)

[BrianCunningham]

If your curious how airplane engines are made, they'll be filming here tomorrow. It should air in a few months. http://science.discovery.com/fansite...owitsmade.html Feature engine is our Thunderbolt series http://www.lycoming.textron.com/thunderbolt/index.jsp How's 750hp @ 3,000rpm grab ya?

[Mr. Peabody]

Wow, you guys manufacture a really cool product.
Thanks for sharing that Brian. I watch that show all the time.

Back when I was a kid ......... and it was in black and white .... it was called "industry on parade"

[88-406]

Wow very cool stuff! I'm also an A&P with my MEL rating as well.

Kelvin

[BrianCunningham]

Just as a follow up, my contracts done, here's the details on the engine I was working on:

http://www.avweb.com/news/airventure..._198493-1.html

Lycoming showed AirVenture 2008 that it's bullish on the light aircraft market by unveiling a new variant of the popular O-540 series, the TEO-540-A, a 350-horspower engine with a full authority digital engine control, the second such certified system for piston engines to hit the market. Lycoming's Mike Kraft told AVweb that the new engine will appear first in the piston version of the Lancair Evolution but the company has its eyes on the certified market with an introduction next year. What's special here? Fuel is provided by an automotive timed pulse design rather than a manifold/air mass fuel injection system and each cylinder has its own closed-loop power control. Unique to the TEO-540 is automotive-style knock sensing for each cylinder which should help the engine adjust to what Lycoming sees as an inevitable decline in the availability of high-octane aviation gasoline. Related Content: Detailed podcast interview with Mike Kraft about the TEO-540-A