The new company will focus on piston engine, turboprop and military aircraft production.
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The Cirrus piston engine, made by Teledyne Continental, is very reliable.
Adding to the malaise, the price of piston-engine fuel with low lead content shot skyward stoked by environmental concerns.
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Its piston-engine Bonanza G36 and Baron G58 twin continue to represent the pinnacle of high-performance, six-passenger capability for their class.
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EcoMotors and Achates are developing two-stroke, opposed piston diesel engines while Pinnacle is working on a four-stroke opposed piston gasoline engine.
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Two are small businesses replacing their aging turboprops or twin-engine piston planes.
In the seven or so years that I've been flying, I've put in more than 2, 000 hours at the stick of single-engine piston airplanes, including a Beechcraft Bonanza, two Cessnas and, most recently, a sleek Cirrus SR22 that I've owned for 18 months.
And the man making this all possible, literally, the single engine, the piston that's driving this whole operation of making sure that we don't walk away from our cities, we don't walk away from this recovery, we don't -- we take the chances we're taking to generate growth here, is a man who came from a big city himself.
Fazle Hussain and Michael Goldshtik, of the University of Houston, in Texas, have taken this thinking much further, and built (with the help of their students) a prototype of an engine with a liquid piston.
Its Variable Compression Engine can alter its compression ratio (the volume in a cylinder when the piston is up compared with the volume when it is down) from 14-1 to 8-1, depending on the circumstances.
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