Brazilians Claim Four-Cylinder Records

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A team of students and their professor from a Brazilian university say they’ve set five new records for an aircraft powered by a four-cylinder engine. Anequim (Portuguese for Mako shark) went 323 mph over a 3-kilometer course. That’s 33 mph faster than Jon Sharp’s Nemesis, the current record holder, which was the undisputed champion in its class at the National Championship Air Races in Reno. Granted, Nemesis got that speed out of an 0-200 while the Brazilian project uses a 280-horsepower souped-up version of an IO-360 but for a school project, it’s turning some heads. The aircraft was designed and built by Paulo Iscold and his students at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG).

The class used a host of new technologies to design and build the speedy airplane and are claiming the following records according to their Facebook posting:

  1. Speed over 3 km with restricted altitude
    Previous record: Nemesis DR-90 — 466.83 km/h (Jon Sharp)
    New record claim: 521.08 km/h
  2. Speed over 15 km
    Previous record: Nemesis DR-90 — 455.8 km/h (Jon Sharp)
    New record claim: 511.19 km/h|
  3. Speed over 100 km
    Previous record: W. Air Race — 389.6 km/h (Richard Young)
    New record claim: 490.14 km/h
  4. Speed over 500 km
    Previous record: VariEze — 387.4 km/h (Klaus Savier)
    New record claim: 493.74 km/h|
  5. Time to climb up to 3,000 m
    Previous record: Pushy Galore — 3 minutes, 8 seconds (Bruce Bohannon)
    New record claim: 2 minutes, 26 seconds

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