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Lemans

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Mar 23, 2008
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599
Location
Toucy France
All the air-planes I know of are using engine mounts to fix the engine on the fuselage.
After that, they fix the propeller on the engine.
Why don't they fix the propeller on the fuselage and fix the engine on the propeller?
Gyroscopic propeller loads are countered by the fuselage and the crank don't suffer at all from these loads.
OK, you can support the engine a bit so he depends not completely on the bearings from the propeller shaft.
I'm just imagine a structural cowling who has already a nearly perfect shape,

it goes nice around the engine and benefits from this shape and volume....
If needed, I could make a sketch to explain a bit better what I have in mined.
 
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