Flatus, you must be one of the very very few who has turbine Chipmunk time in his logbook
Apparently the Rover engined Auster is being rebuilt, what engine is going to be used I have no idea I'm afraid.
We used to run the single shaft version of the Rover on a test bed in uni many moons ago to learn how to do dyno trials etc. My main memory is that if you had the ciggie in your mouth when trying to light it on the exhaust stack (not tailpipe) your eyebrows singed!
Ingineer last week I couldn't spell it, now I are one
Back on topic, does anybody know if the Rover V8 was accepted by the CAA as an alternative to the Gypsy(Gipsy, Romany, New Age Traveller ah stuff it!)?
