 The fuselage looks similar to a conventional tail dragger aircraft, with large tundra tires, and uses a standard conventional aircraft elevator style control system. The airframe will feature aluminum pop rivet together construction, with all of the tubing pre-cut and pre-drilled for ease of construction. The tractor configuration provides increased efficiency as it is working in clean air, and allows for larger diameter props to be used. An optional pre-rotator will aid in faster take-offs. According to Jeron Smith of Raven Redrives the unit will be use Suzuki/Geo 80 HP 3 cylinder turbo engine. Raven has just completed the development of the Turbo conversion for both the three and four cylinder Suzuki/Geo engines. This gives a power increase of 25% while only adding five founds of weight. Reliability is not affected with the addition of the turbo as the only time it is used is during take-off and climb out. Once flying very little boost is used. In field testing has also shown that the fuel burn with the turbo installed is actually less than a stock engine. For the over 200 owners of Raven Redrive units in the field the turbo unit is a bolt on upgrade with no change in wiring harness, computer, etc. needed. These packages are equivalent in horsepower to the Rotax 912, 80 horsepower engine and Rotax 914, 115 horsepower engine. Raven offers these conversions in kit form where the customer can pick up his own engine for a recycling yard, or as ready to fly units. Raven also offers firewall forward packages for a number of popular aircraft designs, including the Rans S6, Zenair 601, Zenair 701, and will work closely with a customer on a mount for mounts that they have not done yet. Cost on most completed conversions is approximately half that of a Rotax 912. For more information contact: | 
