Lycoming Trials...what model ?

blimpy

blimpy

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I've seen some old promotional ads about trials did with Lycoming engine..I think about 100 hp...maybe in the 14-12 ?

about the same power as the radials..but much slicker.

I bet dan has some background on this , and why they went to the franklin.
Franklin is so much more easily and economically serviced, maybe if Cessna
or piper had settled on franklin..lyc or continental might have been marginalized.
Which is like saying if only tucker cars had made it... :wink:
 
There never was an official model "14-10." Not by Bellanca, anyway.
It is mentioned in Juptner's ATC series and perhaps in other publications of the time.
In 1940, AVCO, or Lycoming aircraft engines as we know them, announced a new line of aircooled,
horizontally opposed aircraft engines. These engines still exist today, manufactured in improved form!
These were the O-235, the O-290 four cylinder engines and the O-435 six cylinder engine.
Lycoming obtained a stock 14-9, NC 25307, installed a new O-235 of 100 Hp. and flew the test airplane for some time. Pictures of it flying over a snowy Pennsylvania landscape were used in advertisements of the time.
I saw this airplane, still airworthy, tied down at the Enterprise, Alabama airport in the fall of 1970. Unfortunately it wasn't to last much longer as it relocated to Pennsylvania only to be destroyed in the same flood that wiped out the Piper factory in 1971.
Dan
 
I believe the remains of this airplane and an O-290 engine were up for bid on Ebay about a year ago.
I remember that there were no bidders.
Dan
 
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