Wed, Jul 27, 2011
Centurion Brings 2.0 Engine From Germany To Wisconsin
German engine company Centurion is again displaying its
environmentally friendly Centurion-series diesel aircraft engines
for GA aircraft at AirVenture this week. The company reports that
the engines have accumulated an additional 500,000 hours of
cumulative operating time to 2.7 million hours.
The Centurion 2.0 engine was developed to be a direct
replacement for the company's 1.7 engines with no effect on an
aircraft's CG or useful load. It can also be installed with no
modifications to the existing cowling, leading to a variety of uses
in manned and unmanned aircraft. The company claims an
above-average level of reliability for both versions of the engine.
According to the FAA, engines used in GA aircraft experience an
average of ten engine failures or “in-flight shutdowns”
(IFSDs) every 100,000 flight hours. The company says that shutdown
rate is around 50 percent lower, and has been reduced even further
since AirVenture last year. Taking the period since its
introduction onto the market in 2003 into consideration, the
shutdown rate for all Centurion engine models is 5.46 for every
100,000 flight hours. In fact, measured over the last 52 weeks, the
shutdown rate of the most recent engine model, the Centurion 2.0,
has been just 2.32 IFSDs per 100,000 flight hours.
The Centurion 2.0 possesses various advantages over the 1.7
thanks to all of the experience gained from the field with its
predecessor which was integrated in the development of the 2.0.
During the same period the cumulative flight time of the Centurion
fleet rose by half a million hours to reach 2.7 million hours.
“Around 1.36 million of the flight hours account for
Centurion 1.7, and with its introduction onto the market in 2002 we
encouraged the market to develop alternative propulsion systems for
small aircraft and UAVs. Its successors, the serially-produced
Centurion 2.0 and the Centurion 2.0s, have generated 1.34 million
flight hours to date. Well over 3,000 Centurion engines have
already been delivered in total,” explained Centurion CEO
Jasper M. Wolffson.
Centurion engines are also highly rated from the environmental
point of view. Since they do not emit any lead, they are not
affected by the EPA’s initiatives or by lawsuits like those
in California. “Centurion engines are fit for the future both
commercially and ecologically as they can run on standard
kerosene-type jet fuel and are not reliant on aviation gasoline or
avgas,” said Jasper M. Wolffson. “Not only are they
independent from avgas – Centurion engines also have a whole
range of other ecological advantages: They do not give off lead,
and emissions of nitrogen and hydrocarbons are considerably lower
in comparison to avgas engines. Moreover, Centurion engines
basically consume less fuel and adhere to strict noise pollution
regulations.”
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