FutureWARTHINK 027: Don't Forget to PUSH & PULL
Rhodesian ParaLight Infantry with C-47 ParaDaks & Lynx CAS MUDFIGHTERS; Horse Cavalry with Automatic Weapons/Rifle Grenades, too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRd_vgjGIWE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYUZfd1GjvE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7vfVP-spns
Torque is a HUGE problem damning prop aviation. Asymmetric thrust on wing-mounted twin engines have killed so many, aircraft insurance companies refuse to cover them.
American
aircraft makers cannot do contra-rotating props like the British and Russians
can: Tu-95 Bear bombers, Spitfire XIXs, Fairey Gannet ASW
planes etc.
https://1sttac.blogspot.com/2021/03/future-warthink-022-missing-usn-asw.html
On to
PLAN B.
Arrange
the 2x engines so they negate each other's torque by a PUSH-PULL arrangement
like the German Dornier Do-335 in WW2--what the P-38 should have been (with a center-line bomb trapeze like SBDs and Stuka dive bombers has for dive bombing, direct-hit accuracy):
P-38X
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QBM8-P0Mjg
...and
the brilliant Burt Rutan's Defiant:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutan_Defiant
The
prototype Defiant, N78RA, was first flown on 30 June 1978. It had been
intended as a proof-of-concept of a very safe light twin design, requiring
little trim change and no pilot action in case of engine failure, and with good
single engine performance. A comparison of the Defiant single engine climb rate
with a Gulfstream Cougar had shown about 390 feet (120 m) vs 280 feet
(85 m) per minute at low altitude with both aircraft cleaned up
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...and the
Cessna model 337 which Phil West loves an armed similar push/pull lay-out for Sub-National
Conflict (SNC) like the Rheims 337--but bigger and 2x as fast (400 mph)...
The chief
complaint with 2x engines so close together is NOISE.
Make 1x
or both 2x ELECTRIC.
Problem
solved!
https://www.ampaire.com/vehicles/electric-eel-aircraft
The
AMPAIRE Cessna 337 EEL with a diesel DeltaHawk piston engine could also
use safer-than-gasoline fuels to include biofuels:
The
electric motor could be left on and the diesel piston engine turned OFF for
maximum stealth to get down under 2, 000 feet AGL so elusive enemy targets can
be actually spotted/targeted/destroyed.
Having
its WINGS FOLD, it can be ground-mobile & towed on trailers, in ISO
shipping containers etc. so the eBuzzard could be forward-located with
ground maneuver units to render CAS--and not be D.O.T.G.ed.
Fieseler
Fi-156 Storch Wing Folding TECH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBD2ZCFynYQ
Should
take only 10x minutes tops for people who know what they are doing--these guys
do not--so don't ass u me their effort is indicative of what a military pilot/observer/crew chief could do.
We are
convinced that if we FOLDED the AMPAIRE's wings so they can be GROUND-MOBILE in
ISO shipping containers, trailers etc. THEY (civMil customers) WILL COME and
buy them.
Other
STOL Grasshoppers like the Storch had folding or detaching wings for
ground mobility:
www.combatreform.org/grasshoppersmustreturn.htm
But of course! The eBuzzard should have TWEEL tires that cannot go flat if hit by bullets/shrapnel:
https://tweel.michelinman.com/
...and could be an Unmanned/Manned Combat Air Vehicle (U/MCAV) aka Optionally-Piloted Vehicle (OPV) aka DRONE Killer Bee that could dive into and direct-hit targets albeit a single-engine Kamikaze would be less $$$ wasteful in Nation-State War (NSW) 720 Non-Linear Battlefields where it would be too dangerous for pilot/observer JTAC to be inside..
Semper Airborne!
James Bond is REAL.
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