Old retired Mooney , dodges the reapers saw.....

[Alan Fox]

Well , I found a home for this one , in one piece....  It is now seeing service , as a training unit , in an A&P school.....  Go Figure.....

[Hank]

Glad to see it's getting good use! Lord knows we need more qualified A&Ps!!

[Guest]

Now if those student A&P’s could fit one of those engines in the background into it, it would be a real performer.

Clarence

[N201MKTurbo]

5 minutes ago, M20Doc said:

Now if those student A&P’s could fit one of those engines in the background into it, it would be a real performer.

Clarence

But the exhaust would go right through the Johnson Bar, you would burn your hand putting the gear down!

[Jeph357]

21 minutes ago, N201MKTurbo said:

But the exhaust would go right through the Johnson Bar, you would burn your hand putting the gear down!

A little ingenuity, a cantilever pylon, heatshield along the underside and gear extensions. G2G....

[cctsurf]

Need to mount an o-360 on it so that the future A&Ps can learn how tight it gets inside of a mooney cowl...

[RLCarter]

15 minutes ago, cctsurf said:

Need to mount an o-360 on it so that the future A&Ps can learn how tight it gets inside of a mooney cowl...

No, our local A&P school has about an 80% wash out rate now.....lol

[corn_flake]

2 hours ago, N201MKTurbo said:

But the exhaust would go right through the Johnson Bar, you would burn your hand putting the gear down!

They can just follow Boeing's foot steps.  If engine is too big to fit, glue it, tape it, or whatever it takes.  If the airplane doesn't fly well after that, slap on a half baked software fix and call it good..  

[corn_flake]

@Alan Fox  I love this idea.  Let's all new A&Ps trained on Mooney.  This will help us maintain the fleet.  I think you are on to something!!

[carusoam]

For Grimmy the Reaper... this is a unusual turn of events....

And quite beneficial for the Mooney/GA community...

 

Now, for the background oration going on? .... I think I hear a narrator....   

 

Well, in Whoville they say – that the Grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day.

 

Best regards,
-a-

[EricJ]

Good use for it!

 

[Buckeyechuck]

Is that some sort of old whittle jet engine in the background of the first photo?

[Alan Fox]

4 minutes ago, Buckeyechuck said:

Is that some sort of old whittle jet engine in the background of the first photo?

Affirm

[Buckeyechuck]

That is amazing. Can’t be many hangers with one of those in the corner. 

[Sabremech]

20 minutes ago, Buckeyechuck said:

That is amazing. Can’t be many hangers with one of those in the corner. 

Looks like an old J-47. We have three of those along with an airworthy F86 to make some sweet jet engine music! 

[EricJ]

6 hours ago, Sabremech said:

Looks like an old J-47. We have three of those along with an airworthy F86 to make some sweet jet engine music! 

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I agree that it's probably a J-47, which has an axial flow compressor.    The Whittle engines and the derivatives had double-entry centrifugal compressors, and look a lot different.

https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/195718/general-electric-j31/

 

[1964-M20E]

Cool

I was trying to figure out what was on the front of the plane then I realized it was a student's solution to W&B calculations that needed some correcting.