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The engine series are all four-cylinder four-stroke, horizontally-opposed, air-cooled, Volkswagen automotive conversion gasoline engines, with direct-drive. They employ magneto ignition systems and, depending on the model, produce 55 to 80 hp (41 to 60 kW) at 3600 rpm, with a compression ratio of 8.0:1. They use a geared electric starter.
Great Plains provides VW engine conversions for use in experimental aircraft. [1] Great Plains has been selling and manufacturing conversions of VW engines since circa 1982. Among their offerings is the Great Plains Type 1 Front Drive engine series. [2] Great Plains also helds the rights to the Sonerai series of aircraft designed by John ...
Half Volkswagen engine mounted in a Hummel Bird. For aircraft use, a number of experimenters, who were seeking a small, two-cylinder, four-stroke engine, began cutting Type 1 VW engine blocks in half, creating a two-cylinder, horizontally opposed engine. The resulting engine produces 30 to 38 hp (22 to 28 kW).
Volkswagen air-cooled engine The Better Half VW is an American aircraft engine , designed by Leonard Milholland of Brookshire, Texas , in 1993 for use in ultralight aircraft . The engine is supplied in the form of plans for amateur construction .
The Hummel Bird is an experimental/amateur built aircraft designed by Morry Hummel and produced by Hummel Aviation of Byran, Ohio, United States.It is a single-seat, single-engine, all-metal airplane typically powered by a 1/2 VW engine in the 32 hp-45 hp range although other engines have been used successfully.
Global Motors originally designed a Half VW engine for use in light aircraft. The company and its designs were then sold to Mosler Motors. Warren Mosler specialized in racing engines and added the engine to the list of products eventually marketed under the company name Total Engine Concepts. The engine was dropped from production in 1998. [1]
A Volkswagen engine installed in an Evans VP-1 Volksplane at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum. The Evans VP-1 Volksplane is an American designed aircraft for amateur construction. [1] The aircraft was designed by former Convair, Ryan Aircraft and General Dynamics aeronautical engineer William Samuel Evans of La Jolla, California. [2]
By May 2006, Limbach had produced more than 6000 engines. [2] The engines are certified according to CS-22 Subpart H [3] for use in motorgliders, CS-LSA [4] and CS-VLA [5] type of aircraft. Most Limbach engines are based on the Volkswagen flat-4 boxer unit with displacement of up to 2.4 liters, and up to 160 BHP in the turbocharged model.