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A diesel for Reno!
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I think you should make a Twin RV-4 with these engines. Surely you would
be the first to the starting line. Alas, like Bob Dole, you might not be able to get it up. "Rich S." wrote in message ... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~ccsshb/12cyl/ Rich "Mo' Powah" S. |
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"Rich S." wrote in message ... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~ccsshb/12cyl/ Rich "Mo' Powah" S. Somebody want to calculate the propeller for 108,920 hp at 102 rpm? |
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I bet they have a special security detail tasked with eliminating vistors
who call these "motors". "Rich S." wrote in message ... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~ccsshb/12cyl/ Rich "Mo' Powah" S. |
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Ass-uming a single engine, chain-driven, counter-rotating prop config... Your
2-bladed wooden props would only be 13.25 miles in diameter... each. Now assume a plane of appropriate size/design and you have a Wright Flyer with a 66 mile wide wingspan. Or 1452 square miles of wing area... maybe I'll stick to gliders... Harry |
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You'd have to de-forest the entire state of Washington to build it.
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"Richard Riley" wrote in message ... On 16 Mar 2004 18:38:03 GMT, (Wright1902Glider) wrote: :Ass-uming a single engine, chain-driven, counter-rotating prop config... Your :2-bladed wooden props would only be 13.25 miles in diameter... each. What RPM would they turn? We have to keep tip speed under mach. I think the tip speed would under the visible spectrum. |
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Prop RPM? Oh, that's an easy one... 330-335. Everybody knows that one...
Boy... go get my chainsaw and a bottle of glue. Harry |
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