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By: 24th December 2014 at 06:55 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Not a rare engine, but I had considered whether it was possible to build a Miles M20, on one of my flights of fancy.
The front end is basically a Rolls-Royce MkI power plant as fitted to the Lancaster.
Pete
By: 24th December 2014 at 08:39 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Modified Seafang or Spiteful mated to a race tuned Rolls Royce Eagle 22 with contra-props, and then make an assault on the World piston engined speed record for GB.!
Rob
By: 24th December 2014 at 12:39 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Napier Sabre bolted to a Napier-Heston Racer
By: 24th December 2014 at 13:18 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Not a rare engine per se being a Merlin, and being greedy by picking a pair, but two of them strapped to a sea hornet would be a sight to behold
By: 24th December 2014 at 13:56 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Either a Fairey Firefly IIIM with Rolls-Royce F.XIS or Kestrel engine or Fairey Fox with a Hispano-Suiza 12Y.
By: 24th December 2014 at 15:20 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-2 x DB610 + He177 + 3 x Hs293 with about 5 years to sort out all the problems...............
By: 24th December 2014 at 16:14 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-A Sabre and Tempest VI...
By: 24th December 2014 at 16:50 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-...I had considered whether it was possible to build a Miles M20, on one of my flights of fancy.
Good choice; probably a pretty viable proposition too. Fixed undercarriage, wooden airframe and no hydraulics.
By: 24th December 2014 at 19:19 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Napier Sabre bolted to a Napier-Heston Racer
I agree but who would dare to fly it?
By: 24th December 2014 at 19:32 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Paging Skip Holm.......
By: 24th December 2014 at 19:34 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I agree but who would dare to fly it?
I don't think my flight sim experience would help much with that beast!
By: 24th December 2014 at 19:36 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I think Skip Holm has retired!
By: 24th December 2014 at 20:04 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Yes, he has been rather quiet since that unpleasantness over Santa Monica a few years back. :(
By: 24th December 2014 at 23:25 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-i'd want a pair.of peregrines..............and a whirlwind.
or a 60 series Griffon and build a CA15
By: 25th December 2014 at 02:30 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-This discussion makes me think of Mikael Carlson and how he had a Le Rhone rotary engine to use, so he went about finding out every airplane that was powered with that engine, hit on the Fokker Dr.1, and so he built the aircraft for the engine - and that is the root of the reason why that fantastic reproduction exists.
By: 25th December 2014 at 06:52 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-My dream is a Napier Lion in a Gloster Bamel
By: 26th December 2014 at 20:52 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-An Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar with an Armstrong Whitworth Siskin bolted to it OR....
being greedy 3 AS Jaguars and an AW Argosy. ;)
Roger Smith.
By: 26th December 2014 at 21:48 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-The Siskin can be done.
By: 27th December 2014 at 05:45 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I thought Armstrong Siddeley Jaguars were like rocking horse S#!£
By: 27th December 2014 at 09:43 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Not really ! There are more out there than was previously thought .
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By: Sealand Tower - 24th December 2014 at 00:46
Evening All
Just musing the other day if I owned a rare but airworthy engine what airframe would I build to power it? The actual dream was owning a Hispano Suiza 12Y and building a brand new Dewoitine 501 behind it. Or if I had a Bristol Mercury would I build A PZL P11C ?
Anyone share the same idea ?
ST