Ok , i am into the contest with a piston powered  Messerschmitt 262  .
That's absolute new for me because everything i build is converted in the opposite way .
That mean there must be a lot of Propellers in my stash ... but will I need them    ?

  
This will be very interesting 👍

Piston engines plural rather than singular. 

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I don't think about re-building  some old designs , but thank you for that nice drawings !

1:72 Messerschmitt P.1093/Me 362 A-1; "<I-+" of Stabschwarm IV./JG4, mount of Major Heinz 'Heino' Lerchenberg; Mark Zwuschen (near Berlin), early summer 1945 (Whif/Matchbox kit conversion) by Dizzyfugu, on Flickr

Damn that is cool Diz..very very cool 👍 😀

Quote from: jcf on June 26, 2023, 03:00:22 PMPiston engines plural rather than singular. 

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If you're thinking of pistons in place of the jets some scale-o-rama might be required. Either shrink the engines or enlarge the aircraft. Then you will need a new cockpit. Or make it a side by side two seater. Just thinking out loud.

There is NOTHING near to my mind in that ...  sorry guys 

When is the starting point ?

1.  The Re-Engine IT GB begins 00:01 01/07/2023  and ends 23:59 30/09/2023.

Knowing Killnoizer like we do ..engines on top of the wings for starters...im not going to try to list the ideas Kill might have ..I don't have all day 

Thank you very much   
These things come up all the time , right now I have 6 vehicles in work at the same time, but group build is something different for me , I enjoy that very well .

I am unfortunately out of my home , so no building these days .

The concept of the multi piston engine i think about should be very unusual .  The standard rotary engines , left over from the down broken german  aircraft industry , are used to compress the air , mounted in a row like a multi Stage compressor and similar like a modern jet engine with different stages , before burning the fuel for high effective drive .

Mate I'm surprised your not mounting the engines above the wings so you get clearance for the props and make it look funky even more 😉

The 262  did in fact make its first flight as a propellor   driven airframe.

 Wiki sayeth thus:-     The design of what would become the Me 262 started in April 1939, before the Second World War. It made its maiden flight on 18 April 1941 with a piston engine, and its first jet-powered flight on 18 July 1942. Progress was delayed by problems with engines, metallurgy and interference from people including Hermann Göring,

 First flight   18 April 1941 with piston engine (Junkers Jumo 210)   18 July 1942 with jet engines

I am realy not into the prop design at the moment.  Standard engines yes , but Props ... no .

QuoteThe concept of the multi piston engine i think about should be very unusual .  The standard rotary engines , left over from the down broken german  aircraft industry , are used to compress the air , mounted in a row like a multi Stage compressor and similar like a modern jet engine with different stages , before burning the fuel for high effective drive .

Like René Stapp's Land Speed Rerord car which he claimed would be powered by three Jupiter engines with their pistons
removed that would somehow function as turbines and produce streams of jet exhaust that would propel the car to a new
speed record.

Stapp Jupiter

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The car was constructed on a Voisin chassis and driven around powered by the Voisin sleeve-valve engine, but no evidence
exists the Jupiters were ever installed. It caught fire and burned up on a beach run.

The Jupiter is a 9-cylinder radial.
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