[DeTomaso] NPC - Mid Engine airplanes - Hooks Man redux

[John Bentley (jab)]

Fires right through the crank?  This I gots to see....  How can you have
a crank throw that goes round and round without firing on a connecting
rod?

JB


 

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From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com]
On Behalf Of MikeLDrew at aol.com
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 1:30 PM
To: gow2 at rc-tech.net; guido_detomaso at prodigy.net
Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC - Mid Engine airplanes - Hooks Man redux


In a message dated 3/30/06 13:18:55, gow2 at rc-tech.net writes:

<< The ME 109 had a radial engine with big frontal 

area. The Germans at the time never dreamed it would out perform the 

ME109's. >>

>>>Typo--you meant the FW190 had the radial engine.

The ME109 used a big Mercedes inverted V-12--the crank was at the top,
and 
the cylinders pointed down.  So I guess technically it was an
A-12....The cannon 
was mounted behind the engine, and fired straight THROUGH the hollow 
crankshaft and right out the center of the prop's nosecone.

And the last version of the FW190 had an elongated nose and a
conventional 
(non-radial) engine--I think it was a V-12 (A-12?) also.

Mike
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