Return-Path: Received: from imo-d06.mx.aol.com ([205.188.157.38]) by truman.olsusa.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.1 release 219 ID# 0-52269U2500L250S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 21:11:09 -0400 Received: from ZAKSPEEDE@aol.com by imo-d06.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v23.6.) id fQHV0DM8pj (3937); Mon, 18 Oct 1999 21:15:13 -0400 (EDT) From: ZAKSPEEDE@aol.com Message-ID: <0.ea9f9c03.253d2020@aol.com> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 21:15:12 EDT Subject: RE; LPE AND EAGLE ENGINES To: 73663.457@compuserve.com CC: lancair.list@olsusa.com X-Mailing-List: lancair.list@olsusa.com Mime-Version: 1.0 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<--->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> << Lancair Builders' Mail List >> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<--->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >> I have been seeing e mail from you in regard to the LPE engines which you seem to dislike and see that you are an advocate of the Eagle. Can you tell me any reasons that the LPE engines are only good for rotten friends, etc. as you stated in a recent e mail. I know of a few men who are flying them who seem to love them. There was a guy who owned two Velocity aircraft with LPE engines at Sun in Fun last year from British Columbia that had his plane in the show contest that raved about the engines. There is a Glassair builder with one that I learned of from Popular Grove Airmotive in Chicago who also has a Lancair IV with one. I also saw on the web a site where Platforms International had a wild compound turbocharged one in a group of high altitude communications drones that they were flying with references to other high altitude drones that I traced down powered by the LPE engines. (The Platforms drone with the LPE engine in it was in a big article in Aviation Week early this year.) One had a record at over 61,000 ft. I also traced down an Israeli military drone company called Silver Arrow that flies drones weekly with some type of LPE engine in them. If the military use them and the communications companies rely on them they must be quite reliable. I found that sometimes the engines are called LPE and sometimes Zehrbach-LPE >From the old Oshkosh forums list on the web I see that you must be a part owner in the Eagle company which I guess hopes to compete with the LPE engines someday. Yours appears to be car engine based with a gearbox while the Zehrbach engines are direct drive and by the cubic inches not car engines. By your e mail quoting some 700 lbs the Eagle would appear to be alot heavier. Any information would be appreciated. Given the clear record of military and commercial service the Zehrbach / LPE engine would seem to have the advantage. Zak >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> LML website: http://www.olsusa.com/Users/Mkaye/maillist.html