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  1. Nicholette

    Twin-VW engine Push-Pull design idea (The "Beetlemaster")

    Annnnnd.... don't forget the Twin boomed, Edgley Optica, 160HP Lyoming ducted fan. (Free extra thrust! An added advantage of lowish twin booms is you do not have to worry so much about people walking into the prop, although ductiing the fan is another solution.) Hmmm I wonder how difficult it...
  2. Nicholette

    Twin-VW engine Push-Pull design idea (The "Beetlemaster")

    Your absolutely right of course, in an ideal world you would not even want to share an oily rag between two power plants. Then someone says.. “Well sharing this bit cannot possibly effect the other engine”. Innovation is always a risk some have been willing to take, although it has a price...
  3. Nicholette

    Twin-VW engine Push-Pull design idea (The "Beetlemaster")

    I think the whole light twin airframe concept would become a lot easier were the engine,drive,thrust 'package' seriously reengineered first. As I already read here, with two engines there is weight duplication, a lot of it non 'mission critical' components like the exhaust system/generator and...
  4. Nicholette

    Wanted Jodel D11 Sheet 6

    Someone on Ebay is selling complete set of the original plans on a CD for £10. here is the link https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/JODEL-D11-D112-BLUEPRINT-PLANS-RARE-DETAILED-DRAWINGS-1950s-HISTORICAL-ARCHIVE/283873061789?hash=item4218272b9d:g:CU0AAOSwbKRbNIzz My first club had one of these.
  5. Nicholette

    Solidworks Student - Flattening curved sheet metal?

    Maybe you can get to something like a boat shape in Solid Works if the complex curves are thought of as triangles. Here is jpg of my design for cockpit. This pic I took while I was considering the pre take off airflow pattern. If you turn it upside down you kinda have a boat shape. In this...
  6. Nicholette

    Twin-VW engine Push-Pull design idea (The "Beetlemaster")

    Well any sort of coaxial flying would be great, on the basis that two engines are always better than one. Also ideally if it 'scaled' I know the wing was good as it could take off from the carrier without using the catapult in zero wind. Your right though compromises would have to be made even...
  7. Nicholette

    Twin-VW engine Push-Pull design idea (The "Beetlemaster")

    But of course, and that has always applied to aviators hasn't it? I had my biggest lesson on the importance of weight distribution, loading and C of G from my good friend who was lucky to get away with his life and mobility with a walking stick from a tail spin. At least I did not say "Hey why...
  8. Nicholette

    Twin-VW engine Push-Pull design idea (The "Beetlemaster")

    Two inline VW's.? In my ongoing quest to build a 2/3 or 1/2 Fairey Gannet in my garage, I am going to say.. Hey why not mount them side by side (Or even a pair of Rotax) then a couple of belt drives with some sort of clutch to a coaxial dual tube prop shaft. You run with it, perfect it, make it...
  9. Nicholette

    Proper Strength of Plywood

    You could probably gain a lot of information from looking up the plans of the DeHaviland Sea Venom also of course the DeHaviland Mosquito. Yes they were both made of plywood. Interestingly, the Sea Venom was also the first carrier borne jet to have a guided missile, the Firestreak. Another...
  10. Nicholette

    Contraelectric

    So I may yet be able to make a 2/3 Gannet in the Garage?
  11. Nicholette

    Bugger, bugger, bugger.

    Bother, bother, bother! Your files are still on the disk, unless you have run an aggressive multi-pass 'wipe' or 'scrub' utility. Below is a simple to use utility that will search a hard drive (takes a while about 250Gb/30 min) for any recoverable file, then list them allowing you to choose...
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