How fast can 180Hp go?

[mnewbery]

Cláudio Pinto de Barros founded a school in Brazil at the age of 25 in the 1960's. In three months of 2015 the schools designs broke 23 FAI records.

 

http://www.flyingmag.com/anequim-project

 

The premise is to keep going faster and faster and faster,” he says. “I used to say I wanted to build a 250 mph airplane. Now I built a 350 mph airplane. So my next step is supposed to be a 450 mph airplane. And then the next step will be a 550 mph airplane as an absolute record. But that’s still just a dream.

[rankamateur]

"Development on the first speedster began in 2000 for an airplane named CEA-308. Unfortunately, the project was halted when the Rotax engine failed and the airplane suffered damage. But in 2007, the project was revived.

 

Modifications were made, and a Jabiru 2200 engine was installed. The stock engine was not new, and it was later discovered that one cylinder was leaking."

 

This was all a bit unfortunate!

 

 

[facthunter]

A lot of amateur built fast planes were powered by worked over Continental 0-200's

 

 

[mnewbery]

A bit of research has yielded O-200 mods allowing for 110 up to 135 Hp. In some cases the acro pilots were spinning O-200s over 3500 RPM and the Reno racers over 4000 RPM. TBOs were in the double digits at those settings.

 

Getting 220 Hp from a 180Hp IO-360 for a crack at an FAI record doesn't seem unreasonable especially if the aircraft is going to a museum shortly after. How fast do you want to spend?

 

 

[kgwilson]

"Development on the first speedster began in 2000 for an airplane named CEA-308. Unfortunately, the project was halted when the Rotax engine failed and the airplane suffered damage. But in 2007, the project was revived.Modifications were made, and a Jabiru 2200 engine was installed. The stock engine was not new, and it was later discovered that one cylinder was leaking."

 

This was all a bit unfortunate!

"Nonetheless, in December 2010, Halboth achieved three speed records and one time-to-climb record in the airplane in the C-1a/0 subclass for powered land airplanes weighing less than 300 kg."

So the indestructable Rotax was destroyed & replaced with Jab 2200 with a leaky cylinder & it still broke 4 records. That is almost amusing after reading some other threads.

 

 

[flyvulcan]

We have been considering making an attempt at some of the c-1a/0 class records with a new build Bug but I have just seen the Sr-1.weebly.com and that aircraft should smash the existing records...

 

 

[mnewbery]

http://www.airspacemag.com/flight-today/next-world-speed-record-180956002/

 

278 Hp for about 2 minutes to climb 3000 metres out of the somewhat modified Lycoming IO-360.

 

http://www.fai.org/record-powered-aeroplanes

 

The FAI website is really slow, plus it is a real time sucker looking at the records.

 

Rare Bear used over 3,700 Hp to go 528 Miles per hour. Anequim did 269 mph on less than 1/10th the power. Rare Bear was/is a 1944 designed F8F Bear Cat mated to a Wright R-3350. Technology and aircraft design have come along a bit...

 

Does anyone remember any of the Reno unlimited racers using nitrous oxide to get more power?