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Yes, if the Germans could have built a turbo prop.could the DO-217's life have been extended with turboprop engines?
Depends what the intended role was. Plenty of aircraft that started off as WW2 era piston-powered designs went onto turboprop power later. Such as the Avro Shackleton and DC-4 conversions, and new builds like the P-51 inspired Cavalier Mustang.Why would one bother doing that? By the time turboprops came out, so did much aircraft much better than the Do217 or FW190.
Plenty of aircraft that started off as WW2 era piston-powered designs went onto turboprop power later. Such as the Avro Shackleton and DC-4 conversions,
The best known turboprop Dornier is probably the 328.
I Martin 4-0-4s converted to turboprops.
I was thinking in terms of Dornier from WW2 - but yeah.
Do you have any photos of the Martin 404 - with turboprops?
Depends what the intended role was. Plenty of aircraft that started off as WW2 era piston-powered designs went onto turboprop power later. Such as the Avro Shackleton and DC-4 conversions, and new builds like the P-51 inspired Cavalier Mustang.
A question, and this is the only folder that I feel I could post this in, as there doesn't seem to be a Luft46 or similar folder, could the DO-217's life have been extended with turboprop engines? The reason I ask, is for a while now, I've been putting together a 1/32 Fw-190D with one of Unicraft's DB-021 resin accessory. I know that most everyone who cares to think about it, has built, in one scale or another, turboprop equipped ME-262s and AR-324, which the Unicraft kit has two sets of resin parts for such. But, I ask myself, what about single engine fighters like the FW-190 or the ME-109?
So, taking the idea further, I'm thinking of doing the same with a Revell 1/48 DO-217E.
Now, with the FW-190 mod, I've been thinking that it could be a strike fighter, or even a heavy fighter bomber. So, what would the 217 be? A high altitude recce, or a high speed medium bomber? Either way, due to the increased fuel consumption(in my experience, turbine engines, including turboprop, are thirstier than piston engines), so there'll have to be external tanks, unless it's a recce version, as there won't be any ordinance, so there'd be increased internal tanks.
The Do 217 was underpowered, no question, but no turboprop was available by war's end. However the piston Jumo 222, even derated from 2500 to 2200 hp for reliability, would have cured this weakness and could have made for a better bomber than the Ju 88 and its derivatives.
I can't find this in Kay. Dr Max Bentele, who was in charge of development, records in his autobiography "Engine Revolutions" that in December 1944 best performance figures were achieved as follows: Thrust 1333kp at 10,205 rpm, pr 4.2, mass flow 29 kg/sec, turbine inlet temperature 775C, sfc 1.35.Kay gives the HeS 011 ie RLM 109-011 benching at 1153kg thrust in Jan/Feb 1945.