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> A03 V12 piston engine there's why it is cheaper! turbines are expensive, pistons are cheap.
by dmitrygr 6y ago
> A03 V12 piston engine
there's why it is cheaper! turbines are expensive, pistons are cheap.
- virtue3 6y agoSort of. Yes yes development costs. They are claiming the plane is also cheaper to fly dramatically, and having a similar airspeed to modern jets. That's not easy. Modern jetliners use "turbo-fans" which are just jets powering giant fans. This allows them to be -incredibly- efficient. The complexity of the piston based engine is in the superchargers and how they get air into the engine at high speeds. You can read about it from the highly famous WWII engine the Rolls-Royce Merlin _- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Merlin#Supercharger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Merlin#Supercharge...
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