Boeing puts 6 cylinder Subaru in UAV Helicopter???

[Tandem46]

This should make the Sube crowd proud. Read below article, 2nd to last paragraph mentions Boeing putting a six cylinder Subaru into the UAV helo that the article is referring to.

http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?C...365e79560cc&#d

[asav8tor]

Originally Posted by tobinbasford

This should make the Sube crowd proud. Read below article, 2nd to last paragraph mentions Boeing putting a six cylinder Subaru into the UAV helo that the article is referring to.

http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?C...365e79560cc&#d

I'm not sure if you're kidding? Proud? It crashed ! I had wrote in another thread enough money thrown at the problem could solve any issue. If Boeing under DOD money can't make a Subaru work, I take it back.

[N395V]

I think it unreasonable at this point to presume that the crash was caused by the Sube.

Pure engine or gearbox failure more likely would have resulted in autorotation.


Maybe we should point boeing to a couple of threads here where they can find out that...


A sube can't possibly ever work

Flying a Sube will get a lawyer on your butt

Any one in management who considers a Sube is [ed. this word removed by DR].


But then again Boeing history is replete with dumb ideas like the 727, 747, B17 aren't they?

[cawmd82]

I will be the first to lay money it was not an engine failure. The project is interesting to me anyway in that a real DARPA funded operation chose, of all things, a Subaru and Boeing did not go out and immediately replace it with some traditional aviation powerplant.

This could some day be the beginning of the breakthrough we all need for a truly modern light GA powerplant. A little DARPA money(in their terms) and a lot of Boeing knowhow could EASILY sort out the challenges all the SUBIE people live with and simply do not have the resources to overcome.

At least we can dream......

[SvingenB]

I don't know. Somehow I find it highly unlikely that Boeing would go ahead further using a powerplant that is totally unsupported by the manufacturer for it's use in an aircraft. But who knows, maybe Subaru see some potential in UAV, so it's not totally unsupported?

[Tandem46]

Originally Posted by asav8tor

I'm not sure if you're kidding? Proud? It crashed !

Whoah! I never said, nor did the article say, that the one that crashed even had a Sube in it or that the crash was engine related. If you read the other articles linked to the one I posted, it looks like they've been flying those UAV's with turbines, not Subes.

[Yukon]

Originally Posted by N395V

I think it unreasonable at this point to presume that the crash was caused by the Sube.

Pure engine or gearbox failure more likely would have resulted in autorotation.


Maybe we should point boeing to a couple of threads here where they can find out that...


A sube can't possibly ever work

Flying a Sube will get a lawyer on your butt

Any one in management who considers a Sube is [ed. this word removed by DR].


But then again Boeing history is replete with dumb ideas like the 727, 747, B17 aren't they?

It's a lively discussion when moderators are moderating moderators! Got to love it!

Hey guys......What do you call a Marine fighter pilot with an IQ of 160?????

[plehrke]

Originally Posted by tobinbasford

Whoah! I never said, nor did the article say, that the one that crashed even had a Sube in it or that the crash was engine related. If you read the other articles linked to the one I posted, it looks like they've been flying those UAV's with turbines, not Subes.

The first A160 had a four cylinder Subaru engine which was upgraded to a 6 cylinder in another A160 with it's first flight Nov 30, 2005. The operational version, a A160T, has a turbine engine and first flew June 15th this year. It was a A160T that crashed on Monday.

[Yukon]

Darn, there goes a good thread right down the drain!

[Yukon]

No, we can salvage this! Even the big guys cave in to hype! Program begins with a 4 cyl Subie, moves up to a 6 cyl Subie, ends up with a turbine. Sound familiar?

http://www.physorg.com/news8776.html