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two cylinder,

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s, designed and built by

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Design and development

The 133M is based on the earlier

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and uses a 12 volt 1000W electric starter and has a 12 volt 160W generator. It runs on 95 octane automobile fuel or 100LL

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. The recommended time between overhauls is 1000 hours. The engine was still advertised for sale on the company website in 2013, but by 2015 was no longer listed as available and it is likely that production has ended.

Variants

;VM 133M :Original model ;VM 133MK :Improved model

Applications

* Airflow Twinbee * Airkraft Sunny * Aquilair Swing * Avid Catalina * Flitzer Z-21 * Rainbow Cheetah * SlipStream Genesis

Specifications (VM133 MK)

References

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