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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
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