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Originally Posted by Barry
Back to the original thread and in reply to our German friend Herman. Perhaps he is is not aware that several years ago the German car manufacturer Porche decided to get into the business of developing a replacement for the Lycoming engine .
Their engine which was a single leaver 200 power unit was installed in a specially developed Moony. In spite of the technical engineering excellence of Porche as well as their considerable finacial resources the whole thing turned into a fiasco. All the planes had to be reequiped with Lycoming or Continental powerplants.
Barry
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I am painfully awarwe of that !
Mooney is not the only manucaturer who experienced this, but in fact a whole array of manufacturers over here were affected.
This brings us right back to my statement about protectionism.
Users of the engine loved it, but for PORSCHE the ac engine market was a comparatively small portion of their income and they were told that they had the choice between continuing to build ac engines OR selling cars in the US.
It sucks, but when you build cars....