New Stretched, Re-engined ATR in the Works?

They had the aircraft pictured in the link parked at the Weyerhaeuser hanger for a week back in May. All the Q400s were mean muggin it. Poor fella.
 
You mean Canadian Pratts
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Chris Pratt?
 
Well it's still reverse flow, so... it's going to be less efficient from the start. I don't know why they'd do that with a new design.

FOD resistance, and modular engine concept I would imagine. The Garret is cool, but personally, I'm partial to the Pratt.
 
FOD resistance, and modular engine concept I would imagine. The Garret is cool, but personally, I'm partial to the Pratt.
As far as I'm anything I guess you could say I'm a Garrett guy. Doesn't much matter though as Honeywell seems to have abandoned the GA market to sell their engines for drones.
 
Manual starts are kind of lame, though on a single engine with good batteries and good engine it's really a non issue.
My favorite is the *high residual heat, gen assisted, manual, stomp on the floor, pull the circuit breaker for the cargo lights (because Sweringen was a proper lunatic)" engine start. I feel like the other multi-garrett airplanes are probably just as silly though. I still don't know what in the hell MU-2 guy was doing at this point, looking back on when I rode on BankAir awhile ago. haha

In general, Garrett powered=fast, efficient and interesting. Pratt powered=slow, inefficient and lame. :)
 
My favorite is the *high residual heat, gen assisted, manual, stomp on the floor, pull the circuit breaker for the cargo lights (because Sweringen was a proper lunatic)" engine start. I feel like the other multi-garrett airplanes are probably just as silly though. I still don't know what in the hell MU-2 guy was doing at this point, looking back on when I rode on BankAir awhile ago. haha

In general, Garrett powered=fast, efficient and interesting. Pratt powered=slow, inefficient and lame. :)
The Mits can be funny, but a quick switch from parallel to series can save a hung start. Back to parallel for the charge then crank the next one. SRL in the -10 takes a lot of headache out of it. No approved cross-gen start is one of the very few weaknesses of the MU-2.
 
The Mits can be funny, but a quick switch from parallel to series can save a hung start. Back to parallel for the charge then crank the next one. SRL in the -10 takes a lot of headache out of it. No approved cross-gen start is one of the very few weaknesses of the MU-2.
Ah, same with the Metro. -11, same engine from what I understand, but with the addition of alcohol water injection. I still don't know what he was doing though. haha It's rare for it to be malfunctioning/deferred for us, we do run them colder though. 620 for climb, 610 for cruise.
 
Having spent most of my career in front of Pratts of one form or another, the only mystery is why they went with their oil quantity indication system....

IE, if it isn't any leaking on you, you should add some. Guess they carried it over from their recip days.

Richman
 
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