The Engines - More or Less GB : Discussion

[zenrat]

Or, to put it a third way, you can't beat cubes.

[Weaver]

 - as the Harley rider said whilst ignoring the Japanese sports bikes with 1/5th his bike's capacity screaming past him on all sides...

[ChernayaAkula]

<...> What can we do about floaty things? Does a mast on a sail ship count as an engine?   

How about a BTR-60 with a mast or two? 

[rickshaw]

<...> What can we do about floaty things? Does a mast on a sail ship count as an engine?   

How about a BTR-60 with a mast or two? 

Not as strange as you might believe.  The Indian Army used PT-76 light amphibious tanks during its war with Pakistan in 1971 when they invaded East Pakistan and turned it into Bangladesh.   However, the engines of the PT-76s kept overheating in the tropical heat so they rigged sails, towed them, did whatever they could to get the across the rivers/delta where they were going.   

[PR19_Kit]

Which means it won't be allowable in this GB as it wouldn't be a Whiff. 

[jcf]

<...> What can we do about floaty things? Does a mast on a sail ship count as an engine?   

How about a BTR-60 with a mast or two? 

On rails?, with big, very narrow wagon wheels?, or runners on ice?

[kerick]

Yeah, this target is way out of sight! 

[loupgarou]

Just seen the Trislaner in another topic.
It reminded me that originally it had 2 engines, IIRC.
If I get a Trislander kit and remove an engine to make a Bislander, would it be allowed in this GB or not? 

[jcf]

Just seen the Trislaner in another topic.
It reminded me that originally it had 2 engines, IIRC.
If I get a Trislander kit and remove an engine to make a Bislander, would it be allowed in this GB or not? 

Then it would just be an Islander. 

[Weaver]

Just seen the Trislaner in another topic.
It reminded me that originally it had 2 engines, IIRC.
If I get a Trislander kit and remove an engine to make a Bislander, would it be allowed in this GB or not? 

Then it would just be an Islander.

...and good luck getting an affordable Trislander kit in the first place: Islander kits are hard enough to come by!

EDIT: just noticed in the Stash thread that Eastern Express are doing a 1/144th scale one.

Now what you could do is make the same modification to some other twin-engined type: if adding an engine to an Otter makes it a Twin Otter or Twotter for short, then adding a third engine to it must make it a Trotter...

Alternatively, you could splice the fuselages of two Dornier Do.28s together and add TWO extra engines on either side of the fin...


OR, get a Trislander (somehow), take both wing-mounted engines off it and replace the tail engine with a much bigger one to make a Monoislander (flying boat hull too?)

[rickshaw]

Just seen the Trislaner in another topic.
It reminded me that originally it had 2 engines, IIRC.
If I get a Trislander kit and remove an engine to make a Bislander, would it be allowed in this GB or not? 

Then it would just be an Islander.

Except it would be much longer than a standard Islander.  You'd need two much more powerful engines to get it off the ground.

[Weaver]

Trilandered Do-28:

dornier-do-28-quad by Harold Smith, on Flickr

An alternative way of doing this would be to get a Do-228 (longer fuselage), take the original engines off it and replace them with four Do-28 engines, two on the nose and two on the tail.

Of course, that then leave you with two butchered Do-28 kit. You could put the Do-228's TPE-331 turboprops on one of them (there was a technology demonstrator like this in real life, but it had other changes from the Do-28 too, including a supercritical wing and tricycle undercarriage), and as for the other, well I've always thought that the Do.28 fuselage would make a good basis for a helicopter. Alternatively, you could put one TPE-331 on the nose of each of them, since it's got more power than both of the original Lycoming flat-sixes put together and weighs less than one of them...

[Weaver]

Off-topic (because the number of engines doesn't change), but isn't it time Dornier showed a bit more respect for their heritage? 

dornier_do_228_pushpull by Harold Smith, on Flickr

[Weaver]

Trotter:

trotter by Harold Smith, on Flickr

[Mossie]

Just seen the Trislaner in another topic.
It reminded me that originally it had 2 engines, IIRC.
If I get a Trislander kit and remove an engine to make a Bislander, would it be allowed in this GB or not? 

Then it would just be an Islander.

If you took the wing mounted engines off and stuck one in the nose, that would make for something different.
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