by The Ruptured Duck » Sat Aug 30, 2008 9:53 am
Th 680 is a rare bird, I see Central Air Southwest Commander 500B and S's all the time. I believe the 680 has a geared turbo or supercharger combination, making the engines very unreliable. However many things on the airframe were designed quite smartly. The brakes run off of the hydralic system like a car, the fuel tanks are all interconnected making fuel transfers a 'no problem', the tail was also designed to be very large in order to counteract p-factor in the event of an engine failure.
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