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Tomo, here is an idea I have had for some time for a really, really fast and long range Mossie Recce Photo plane: Take a Sabre and put it at the front. Take two DH Gipsy Twelve engines and mount them in pusher configuration, so that not only do they produce less drag, the propellers in...

Tomo, let me thank you on making this thread. This is one really good looking thread!!! Now let's see...can you make a B-29 with 4 Napier Sabres in (a) tractor and (b) pusher configuration, a la the B-36? And if you could moung a slave Napier in the certral ring, losing the fuel there, of...

Gentlemen, I reply in two words: Napier Sabre. This under supported and under reported engine in its final form, with a decent supercharger, gave up to 5500 hp in its highest form, and had WAY smaller frontal area!!!

And now a question which, I believe, no one has ever asked before. What if... Dornier had been struck by a sudden epiphany, and thought: "The rear engine of my two engine design was always the more efficient position, anyway. Why not put both props at the rear, on a co-axial contra...

And now, my idea for a ground attack aircraft of the Luftwaffe. It is the FW 189...but instead of the 3 man central gondola of the 189, it has a slightly enlarged version of the Hs 129 armoured cabin, and a third Argus As Engine in a pusher confguration behind the pilot. I will call it the "...

From "Flying guns" by Tony Williams: There were various possible locations for heavy cannon, but they all boiled down to two basic types - wing or fuselage mountings. Wing mountings had several disadvantages. First, they suffered the usual problems with this location of harmonisation; that...

Here is another idea, this time for a dedicated ground attack aircraft for the Luftwaffe. THE PROBLEM Starting from 1942 onwards the T-34 problem begins to loom larger and larger on the Eastern Front. While other tanks pose a problem, Intelligence tells the Germans that for the forseeable...

Not two MK 108s together - did you not read my post? A two barrel Mk 108 in a Zwillig configuration was what I said. And it seems you have not read the part of the German P 39 being a MULTIPURPOSE aircraft, able to kill heavy four engine bombers, vehicles up to tanks, and even small landing...

And just why would that not be possible? I fail to see the slightest reason why. Mechanically, it is merely a matter of fitting a large, hollow fixed shaft through which the 3 barrels would shoot. The second question you asked is: why would we want 3 Mk 108s anway? And the answer is...

Rereading the history of both aircraft design and air combat, I was struck by a sudden idea... WHAT IF THE GERMANS HAD REVERSE ENGINEERED THE P-39 BUT WITH 3 30mm MK 108 INSTEAD OF A SINGLE 37mm M4 CANNON IN THE NOSE??? Let's see if this flies. Since the Germans had access to captured P...

This ... IDIOT...being banned, I agree with 2000000%!!!!!!

Hey!!! Stop making me da scapegoat you...bender...you!!! :D

And, as I and others have pointed out time and again, dave, you CANNOT fire any type of 30 mm cannon synchronized through the prop! Although as all on this forum know, I am a great fan of the 335 and the tandem concept.

OK, I'll explain. For a full technical explanation, go to Tony Williams' website. Short answer, as you go up into larger and larger cartridges, the variablility in burning time for the propellant in that cartridge makes the exit time for the shell from the barrel more and more unpredictable...

I am a 123 fan and I totally agree that the 123 should have been put back into production. With a few twists. A rear gunner (not just for gunnery, as I said before, his eyes are more valuable than his gun) protection by at leas a few 109s for each Geschwader of 123s, spin stablized rocket...