There is a 1/2 scale P-38 that Walter Treadwell a member of my EAA
chapter built running 2 Suzuki Swift 4 cyls and using a belt reduction drive,
I believe that is the one that was featured in Kitplanes. He is based in
Livermore Ca (KLVK). (BTW he built the plane totally from scratch and his new
project is the Johnson wax flying boat.)
Bill Jepson
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From:
david mccandless <daval@iprimus.com.au>
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
<flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 17:24:15
+0800
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: different take on the P-38 issue
Hi P38
fans,
There are a couple of scale P 38s around, one with Menasco
Pirate engines and the other with Walter LOM engines. I think one was featured
in Kitplanes. For the record the DeHavelland Hornet had left and right turning
Merlins. There was a LH Merlin for sale here in Australia a few months back
for $15000, still in the packing crate. The RAAF had 12 Hornets, but never
flew them operationally. I once met the test pilot who flew them to the
graveyard; he said he held the record between Sydney and Brisbane in a Hornet
until B727s came into service in the early 60s
Just for interest,
Dave McC
On 27/07/2005, at 3:04 PM, Todd Bartrim
wrote:
> Yeah, I've thought of this too. How cool would
that project be? The > garage that I'm building will have a 27' door and
will be the home of > many future projects, but I've got a long list of
possible projects > and this one just got added to the list.
>
Todd (if there is no rest for the wicked, then I must have been a real >
bad teenager)
>>
>> To make this a more
"on-topic" discussion, wouldn't the rotary make >> a perfect engine for
a P-38 replica! PP rotaries will run in either >> direction as well so
you could even do the counter rotating props! >> Spur gear PSRU (Mistral
or Powersport) would work fine backward. Just >>
dreaming.
>> Bill Jepson