From twins to 4 engines

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EE Lightning with 4 engines?

[McColm]

Interesting concept, makes my Frightening V/STOL version seem plausible.

[PR19_Kit]

EE Lightning with 4 engines?

Now that WOULD be a goer! 

2 x 2 in a box, or two fuselage's worth on each wing?

Goodness knows where you'd put the fuel needed, otherwise it'd run dry before it crossed the airfield boundary! 

[McColm]

That would look like your triple Mustang layout.

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EE Lightning with 4 engines?

Now that WOULD be a goer! 

2 x 2 in a box, or two fuselage's worth on each wing?

Goodness knows where you'd put the fuel needed, otherwise it'd run dry before it crossed the airfield boundary! 

I was thinking 2x2 ... or you could have all 4 on top of each other like in the "Anglo-Atomic Thunderbolt X1966":
http://tomzoo.deviantart.com/art/Anglo-Atomic-Thunderbolt-X1966-491863296

[Dizzyfugu]

I wonder if there was a four engine Wellington,

There was in WHiffWorld............ 

I've a vague memory of a tri-motor Wellington whiff, somewhere, somewhen........

Yes, in USN colors. Was posted here. There's also been a (nice!) trimotor Bf 110 (in Italian markings IIRC) last year or so.

Concerning a 2x2 box engine layout, I have seen a sketch of a flying wing Yalovlew bomber design with such an arrangement. Looked awe-inspriring!

For a Lightning... how about wing tip nacelles (added, of course), mated with a longer fuelage and bigger wing span? Add a tandem cockpit, and it could have been sold to Canada after the demise of the CF-105... 

[McColm]

Or solid nose, rear exhaust pipes deleted and rear reshaped. Bigger wing and four poded jet engines.

[NARSES2]

EE Lightning with 4 engines?

Now that WOULD be a goer! 

2 x 2 in a box, or two fuselage's worth on each wing?

Goodness knows where you'd put the fuel needed, otherwise it'd run dry before it crossed the airfield boundary! 

I've got a vision of a couple of bowsers following down the runway/taxiway