In a message dated 11/18/2003 2:17:44 PM Eastern Standard Time, rotary.coot@verizon.net writes:

> 13b turbo's as I have a line on a hull and I would build
> new wings so I could get it into the 51 percent rule.
>  
>  Ken

Ah Ken,

That has been my fantasy for several years now- the 337 was one of the coolest best thought out airplanes ever built and then Cessna chose to put the very worst engines TCM ever produced on it. They they wedged those crappy engines in so tight that every mechanic will charge you a premium just for being forced to work on the knuckle busting pig. (just one example, you have to time the rear engine from the back seat of the plane, you pull off a panel on the rear firewall and reach through it to set the timing!)

I would only do one thing different from you Ken- I would use the wings and build the fuse. Mainly so the engine access problem could be solved and so I could build a nice fat fuselage to fit my big fat a$$ in! :-) I also have some idea's to simplify the main gear retraction scheme...

Oops, drifted off into the dream land again...

Rob