3-engined Aircraft Types.....

[jcf]

Hell Jon.

BdB would have to be in hog heaven with this thread.  When you said 3 engined 110, I was actually expecting one of the photoshopped jobbies from Unicraft's asymetric spinoff.

Any info on the wing engines?

regards,

John

Hi John,
the plan was for an unpowered wind-tunnel model.
But I suppose one could 'invent' a previously unknown small aero-engine developed by Porsche
using his Auto Union racer engines as the starting point.

Cheers, Jon  

[Archibald]

Couzinet made many aircrafts with three engines... most famous is the Arc-en-ciel (rainbow) but there was plenty others.
don't forget the Dewoitine D-332 and D-338!!!
Aviafrance  

http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?...SION=0&MOTCLEF=

http://www.aviafrance.com/aviafrance1.php?...UCTEUR&MOTCLEF=

http://www.aviafrance.com/image.php?im=322

[jcf]

Wasn't there a version of one of the early Northrop monoplanes with three Curtiss Conqueror engines?

Hi Evan,
Jackie Cochran's Gamma 2G, s/n 11, was powered by a Curtiss Conqueror and was the only Gamma
powered by an inline engine.


Her aircraft was later re-engined with a radial and was the aircraft Howard Hughes used to set the transcontinental speed record in 1936.

I've not seen pictures or read reference to an early  Northrop tri-motor. The Alpha, Gamma, and Delta series of aircraft were not large enough to safley mount three Conquerors.

Cheers, Jon

[jcf]

A Junkers project for a large doppel-decker trimotor:

Length around 35m, wingspan around 44.5m. Powerplants unknown, Jumo 213 could be a possibility as a Ju 52 was modified with one 213 mounted in the nose.

The Arado was to use four Jumo 208 Diesel engines, two per nacelle.

Cheers, Jon

[elmayerle]

Wasn't there a version of one of the early Northrop monoplanes with three Curtiss Conqueror engines?

Hi Evan,
Jackie Cochran's Gamma 2G, s/n 11, was powered by a Curtiss Conqueror and was the only Gamma
powered by an inline engine.


Her aircraft was later re-engined with a radial and was the aircraft Howard Hughes used to set the transcontinental speed record in 1936.

I've not seen pictures or read reference to an early  Northrop tri-motor. The Alpha, Gamma, and Delta series of aircraft were not large enough to safley mount three Conquerors.

Could be, it's been ages since I looked through Rolfe's book, which is where ISTR seeing that.

For a touch newer, if hardly modern looking, effort, there's the Northrop C-125 "Raider".

[kitnut617]

Conroy Tri-Turbo-Three, a small number of DC-3's converted to turbo props with one engine in the nose.

http://www.apda61.dsl.pipex.com/Av5/Conroy.jpg
http://www.air-and-space.com/conroy.htm

Fantastic!!!    I've never heard about this before... turboprop DC-3s      (love the one with the 3 *PT-6A)

Archie, Heritage Aviation do a Turbo-Dak conversion in 1/72:

http://www.heritageaviationmodelsltd.com/B...0Dak%20Inst.JPG

I got one a while ago and started to build the model but that was before my house move.  It's on hold for a while until I get my model room fixed up and running.  It's a very neat conversion and you get the forward fuselage plug that the Baslers get to correct the cg.  There's decals and parts for a South African AEW Trainer version too.

Robert