Piston Perfection

[Radish]

Love the "Rules"...clear, precise...guaranteed to produce aircraft porn  

[NARSES2]

Now that's a GB I could really go for    

[Archibald]

Cool! Got some R-3350 left by a B-29, and I'm toying with them for weeks now...

[ysi_maniac]

Two questions:

Piston/Jet mix, like Ryan Fireball, is acceptable?

Turbochargers are acceptable?

[Archibald]

No jets, rockets or turboprobs

[ysi_maniac]

So the suggested DINAH interceptor is OK. No?

Thinking in suitable engines. Inline or radials ...

http://www.whatifmodelers.com/forum//index...=16046&hl=dinah

[kitnut617]

Just a clarification Wooksta please,  the RR Crecy was a two stoke piston engine which relied heavily on a supercharger and an exhaust turbine (basically a refined turbocharger) slaved to the crankshaft but orientated so residue exhaust thrust argumented the forward motion of the aircraft in it's design (all piston engines had exhaust thrust taken into account, but the Crecy took more of it in the design).  There was six V-12 Crecy's built but there was also a number of X configurations on paper using the same design, do these comply to your build rules?

Robert

[Brian da Basher]

Hmmm this one's got my interest. I might have another drop-tank in the spares box looking for a mission.

Brian da Basher

[Captain Canada]

Group build, schmoop build......is that all you guys do is come up with new groupbuilds ?



Does sound interesting, tho, and will hopefully yield a whole whack of beautiful aeroplanes !

[Damian2]

Sounds goood to me...I gots some Mustangs, Corsairs, Bearcats and sea Furies that have some pretty nifty things I want to do to them.

[elmayerle]

Piston means that - piston power.  No mixed power.  As I said, RATOG would be allowed as technically it's a store and dropped after takeoff.  No propellor turbines either, as that's just a jet engine with a prop on the front and therefore cheating.

Turbochargers.  Yes, because they're actually part of the engine albeit an add-on.

Allowed:
Spiteful, Sea Fury, Wyvern TF1

Not Allowed:
Ryan Fireball, Wyvern S4.

So, would something like a MiG-13 be acceptable since the main powerplant is piston?

[ysi_maniac]

Was not Caproni Campini power plant very close to MiG-13?

[Radish]

Now come on guys, stop pushing the envelope...PISTON power, OK

Inline, radial...enough I'd have thought.

PISTON.....

might do a beer drinker's entry....PISTON BROKE

Got a few Sea furies to build      

[elmayerle]

No.  Again. that's mixed power.

Caproni-Campini or MiG-13(I-250N)?

BTW, Lee or TSRJoe, how does the Eagle engine match up with a P-51D or p-51H airframe?

[NARSES2]

might do a beer drinker's entry....PISTON BROKE

 

So I need to dig that Eagle engined Tempest out - SEAC me thinks