An Overview of General Aviation Propulsion Research Programs at NASA-Lewis Research Center

Development Potential of Intermittent Combustion (I.C) Aircraft Engines for Commuter Transport Applications

“…Using these results and related data, airplane/ mission evaluation studies of each engine in representative airplane/mission scenarios were conducted in-house by NASA (13), and under contract by Beach Aircraft (14) and Ces -ta Aircraft(15). Since these G/A results have been previously presented (16), and another presentation in this session is to cover corresponding but more recent results for larger engines, the present discussion is limited to a very brief sum-…”