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Love it - I have 30 years to reach that milestone.

I read somewhere it produced 350hp and was capable of 260kts. And I read they added gussets to the wing to strengthen them for the high speeds. I read there were only 5 liquid rockets ever made.

That is very useful to see. And the Conty TSIO520VB is very very similar to my TSIO520NB.

So even a moderately boosted turbo charged engine counts as moderate compression ratio I guess. My TSIO520NB is boosted to 38'' of MP (but it goes to 40'' in other installations like the twin Cessnas), but the compression ratio is 7.5:1. I guess precisely to prevent detonation. Even if it looses some efficiency its nice to have your engine not melt down.

What constitutes moderate level of compression?

I live 15 miles from Canada and it is just darned convenient to cut across to places in the USA west and also to go to Canada - so that is the only thing preventing me from going basic med. When will that come?

Mine is 2272 including TKS and a number of other goodies.

Looks like mine is not. What's the point of having a rule that says the plane can be 61 dirty stall but the pilot can only fly a plane that is 59 clean?

Are Mooney's allowed under the new light sport rules? https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2025/july/22/light-sport-rules-expand-dramatically

Hi Trogdor - I will reply to your pm in a second. But for the thread: So yes my TSIO520NB on my rocket has been in overhaul for quite some time. Finishing up the airplane is almost done and ground run is due on Thursday with test fly early next week. Yes my airplane made 1400 and in fact I sent it to overhaul at 2050 more out of a sense of enough is enough rather than I was seeing some specific problem. I had it done at RAM engines and airframe at Weberaircraft.

How much is the aerocruze all in including install

Let me use the power invested upon me by my PhD in mathematics, and say - YES!

It's amazing how many things and parts and systems have to go right to have a successful flight. Even the shoe laces have to work. No water bottles flying around. Fuel testers. I once put a luggage bag in the front set beside me in a turbulence bump it shifted forward and start pressing on the yoke. And I had to wrestle it out of the way to keep the plane from wanting to nose down. It wasnt a difficult thing to push it back but it was a scary reminder of things you dont even think of can get you. E

Its the insurance company's plane now is not just a mantra to save your butt - but its even kinder to the insurance company as well since if you do crash and loose all souls on board after attempting an ill-fated ill-advised go around - well just from a financial stand point to the poor insurance company, that would cost the insurance company significantly more money - since souls are way more expensive than metal. So do your insurance company a favor and do whatever it takes to not die.

Hopefully its just a relocation. As far as I understand however, we could survive without them. The two major components that are particular to the rocket are the exhaust stack and the engine mount (cage) and both of those could be overhauled by third parties. I know this since my engine is currently being remounted after overhaul and I did shop various solutions for overhauling the exhaust and mount and there are third party aircraft welders who do such work. I did however go with rocket for this job and I had it done just a few months ago. In fact, when I called rocket none other than Mr Darwin Conrad himself answered the phone and I had a nice conversation with him just about 6 months ago.

I am 6'4'' and unusually long legs even for my height. I had an extra hold added to the pilot position rails added so my seat goes back a bit further even then regulation. No one over the age of 6 would want to sit behind me. Which is just fine since that works nicely with the weight and balance.

Oh - and the lighter prop did help the weight but I hardly have the weight to lift 4 passengers and bags. I can’t remember lift 4 tiny people (not me) - a tiny bit of fuel - and toothbrushes for all . last time I flew with 4 was when my youngest was in elementary school and my middle son in middle school. Well my youngest is starting grad school in England in the fall. i can and occasionally do flights with 3.

No - it’s still forward of a j and it is still a generally forward cg plane but it did move back a good bit so it’s no longer extremely forward. I can’t remember the numbers but I think it’s just a tiny bit behind an original k.

The Charlie weight bay in the tail is full as it comes from the rocket conversion. Yes I could have removed several to keep balance as it was - nose heavy but within allowable envelope. I removed none since I preferred the more balanced centered envelope of a lighter Mooney. Better road feel.

It can be improved. The 4 blade my on my rocket has 2” of prop clearance recovered and removes 35lb from the nose which greatly improves the balance.

This video is really bad - in such interesting ways. If you are interested in the mathematics of AI like I am. It remarkable that AI can put together something, anything at all. This video has such interesting errors in the visuals - wrong airplane - details of the airplane keep changing - and even the prop is all off - with random number of blades sticking out at random angles. And of course the information is all wrong. Notably the idea that the airplane is still in production and development in 2025. Or we get the G3000, and on and on.

I just looked it up - apparently NASCAR the organization started much earlier than I realized - but it grew out of classic boot leggers from the prohibition era 1920's running illegal adult beverages from the police in souped up street cars on streets (dirt roads!). But surely in 1948 none of the modern car safety stuff was in place. Just stock cars with souped up engines. I read that roll cages became a NASCAR procedure in 1972 : 1948 DECEMBER 14, 1947 – Bill France Sr. organizes a meeting at the Streamline Hotel in Daytona Beach, Florida, to discuss the future of stock car racing. NASCAR, the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, is conceived. FEBRUARY 15, 1948 – NASCAR runs its first race in Daytona Beach at the beach road course.

It was dispelled by Al Mooney himself - he wrote an autobiography that I read. He designed the M20 himself on his kitchen table. The first M20 prototype flew in 1953.

Did they say "our roll cage - which was designed by Nascar..."?!!

My RAAM overhaul of my TSIO520NB took about 3 months once it got to their shop. I dont know if they do anything but big bore.