Rare Engine+Brand New Airframe

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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 ?

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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.

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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.!

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Napier Sabre bolted to a Napier-Heston Racer

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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

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Either a Fairey Firefly IIIM with Rolls-Royce F.XIS or Kestrel engine or Fairey Fox with a Hispano-Suiza 12Y.

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2 x DB610 + He177 + 3 x Hs293 with about 5 years to sort out all the problems...............

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A Sabre and Tempest VI...

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...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.

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Napier Sabre bolted to a Napier-Heston Racer

I agree but who would dare to fly it?

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Paging Skip Holm.......

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I agree but who would dare to fly it?

I don't think my flight sim experience would help much with that beast!

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I think Skip Holm has retired!

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Yes, he has been rather quiet since that unpleasantness over Santa Monica a few years back. :(

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i'd want a pair.of peregrines..............and a whirlwind.

or a 60 series Griffon and build a CA15

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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.

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My dream is a Napier Lion in a Gloster Bamel

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An Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar with an Armstrong Whitworth Siskin bolted to it OR....
being greedy 3 AS Jaguars and an AW Argosy. ;)

Roger Smith.

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The Siskin can be done.

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I thought Armstrong Siddeley Jaguars were like rocking horse S#!£

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Not really ! There are more out there than was previously thought .