Gents- How many of you remember the Cessna  337 with Mazda 12A thaat was

trucked to Oshkosh  FI about 20 or so years ago.  quite a bit of research
was done by NASA Lewis (Glenn)  in CLE but it was never flown.  The project
was scrapped, but stuff should be in their files, yet.   The engine was
front mounted.             Ed Fisler,  Mentor, OH

Yep. NASA wrote plenty of tech papers on the subject.

Paul Lamar

Wait a minute! didn't the Skymaster have a push pull set of engines to allow
center line thrust?
One of them crashed on take off at Hobby airport in Houston late 60's very
early 70's with four very large passengers and enough hunting equipment to
start a small war. The physician pilot was blamed as I recall. But of course
his widow sued.

Ralph

Yes. SAE 820354, 841018 and 871039 from NASA 

Paul Lamar
 
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