Tue, Mar 04, 2003
To Study Business Opportunities For Honda's Next-generation
Piston Aviation Engine
Honda
Motor Co., Ltd., announced late Monday that Honda and Teledyne
Continental Motors, Inc. (TCM) will begin a joint market
feasibility study for a next-generation piston aviation engine
currently in development by Honda. Over the next several months,
the joint study will evaluate potential business opportunities for
both parties to work together toward marketing, servicing and
manufacturing, and identifying potential product launch customers
for such engines for the general aviation market.
The announcement follows approximately two years of cooperation
between the two companies on the testing of a prototype Honda
designed piston aviation engine at the Mobile, Alabama facility of
TCM. Honda's piston aviation engine technologies derive from its
research and development of motorcycles and automobiles. With
support in the development process based on TCM's aviation
expertise and know-how, Honda has developed a prototype piston
aviation engine that has achieved the technical potential for being
significantly advanced over currently available engines in terms of
weight, fuel efficiency, power output and emissions. Honda, TCM and
Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, the parent company of TCM, have
agreed to conduct a joint feasibility study as the next step in
their relationship.
Not much information for an "announcement:"
Company officials and spokesmen wouldn't tell us much about the
proposed engine, other than that it is a four-cylinder opposed,
watercooled engine that will run on unleaded premium mogas, and
will offer "significant" improvements in power/weight and
environmentals. It's also a safe bet that it will be a
"single-lever" powerplant, utilizing the latest and best of FADEC
technology.
A prototype exists, we're told, and 'no photos are forthcoming;'
but we had to rely on our ANN
News-Spies to get a shot of it.
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