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At least if your belt brakes on the supercharger you can still make some power as opposed to losing parts of the turbo in the engine which more than likely will cause more of a power loss.

Belts coming off are far more frequent than impeller blades coming apart. The most common failure of a turbo is it's bearing going out. The only time I have ever seen a turbo come apart (been around turbo cars for a long while now), is when you use too small of a turbo and over speed it. I have however seen more than a fair share of Vortech super chargers have their impellers come apart and their gearboxes come apart. Remember that a Vortech supercharger is the same as a turbo with one exception----the driven side is done by the crank rather than the exhaust as is on a turbo. There are no roots type superchargers in airplanes that I have ever seen. Think of a roots type supercharger as a "blower."

Here is some of my experience with turbo's. I am the engine builder/assembler on this car (it's a family thing).
http://forums.jetcareers.com/member-announcements/86385-psca-outlaw-street-1st-place.html
 
Just imagine if they build a retract version...


I often ponder the same thing. I bet ya it'd do about 265kts. And you would have a really hard time getting it to come down from altitude w/out speed brakes. The Lancair IV-P is the same plane and does 330 MPH (285 knots), but has a few more horse power.:drool:
 
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