Mooney Missile

Volume 33
Number 3
March 2003

Mooney Missile

Stuffing 300 HP into the J-model Mooney definitely makes it go. You’ll need bigger fuel tanks to feed it, however.

Missile conversion hides six-cylinder Continental engine in a modified 231 cowling.

We wonder if pairing an engine and an airframe gets the exhaustive attention it deserves or whether it’s just left to dumb luck. There’s no question that some engine/airframe marriages are made in heaven while others are the stuff of nightmares.

On the heavenly side, we count the Cessna 182 and the Continental O-470, the O-320 used in the Cessna 172 and the O-540 Lycoming Piper selected for the Cherokee Six. Engines/airframes that haven’t worked out so well include the Malibu Mirage’s ill-starred TIO-540-AE2A Lycoming and the Continental IO-360s Cessna used for its push-pull 337. …

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