{"id":1301,"date":"2020-07-23T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sling2.slantalpha.com\/wp\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2021-02-02T17:12:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T01:12:25","slug":"engine-propeller-and-firewall-forward-kit-ordered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sling2.slantalpha.com\/wp\/?p=1301","title":{"rendered":"Engine, Propeller and Firewall Forward Kit – Ordered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I can see the end of the airframe assembly down the road and setting the wheels in motion to have the engine group arriving in 3 months or so, will keep me motivated to accomplish tasks in order to be ready when it all gets here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The engine is the BRP Rotax 912iS Sport<\/a>. It’s state-of-the-art. I’m absolutely set on having a 21st century engine for a 21st century airplane. It’s a mere 100 horsepower, but it’s the<\/em> engine for the Sling 2 – IMO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yes, there is a 115 horsepower turbo engine option – which offers more performance to be sure, but it’s significantly more money, it’s got a turbocharger to maintain, not quite as high-tech – doesn’t have FADEC (computerized engine management system), plus – it demands a constant-speed propeller that costs 4 or 5 times as much as the fixed-pitch unit I’ve decided on for my machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking of propellers – the propeller of choice for the 912iS powered Sling 2 happens to be the very sharp-looking, carbon fiber, 70 inch diameter, 3-bladed, ground-adjustable Whirlwind GA-RW3B<\/a>, dressed with the perfect spinner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sling 2 Aircraft Fitted with Whirlwind Composite Propeller<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The engine comes from BRP Rotax in Austria, through their South African distributor – Sling Aircraft and then to the USA. Eventually, it all has to make its way to the Upper Left Corner, where I am, in out-of-the-way Sequim, Washington. It’s a roundabout, slow-boat process – no doubt about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because the engine and aircraft are of African decent – I’m expecting the engine fittings are going to be metric, as opposed to UNF – more typical for aircraft in the US. The engine itself is metric, but I understand that they can be had with UNF fittings for oil and fuel lines. However, the firewall forward kit is going to be for a metric engine and I’m not going to try to swim upstream. Go with the flow. Someday, if it really bugs me I could probably convert it from metric fittings. In the meantime, I’m going to put it all together and go flying – as it comes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s pretty darned exciting and really something to look forward to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can see the end of the airframe assembly down the road and setting the wheels in motion to have the engine group arriving in 3 months or so, will keep me motivated to accomplish tasks in order to be ready when it all gets here. The engine is the BRP Rotax 912iS Sport. It’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,110,115],"tags":[113,112,114],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sling2.slantalpha.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sling2.slantalpha.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sling2.slantalpha.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sling2.slantalpha.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sling2.slantalpha.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sling2.slantalpha.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1310,"href":"https:\/\/sling2.slantalpha.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions\/1310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sling2.slantalpha.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sling2.slantalpha.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sling2.slantalpha.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}