Would there be any advantage in using a tyson garvin type
design
  engine with shafts side by side
for aircraft?

  I remember
reading the newsletter regarding the "lots of power
radial
  rotary" subject someone had a
few months ago and it got me wondering;

instead of stacking rotor upon rotor from front to back, why
not for
  a racing aircraft, could we stack
them front to back and side-by side
  like
Tyson's engine. It would fit in wider cowled aircraft
easily.

  Clearly, one
would need to do some serious engineering and machining
  to obtain such a thing as mr garvin did, but
it is just a thought.
  I've been
losing sleep over this idea. I have enough knowledge to
  drive myself crazy and not enough to solve
my own problems... yet.


Tyson's engine for racing boat

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qcgg7w6TFQc


  Cheers,
Jen Kimball

It is
hard for me to respond to this. Don't be offended.
Since we are
getting
650 HP
out of a two rotor perhaps you are thinking of building a
scale
Spruce Goose ?   It would
make a great flying motor home.
Half scale
would be 1800 HP with eight engines or so.
A
little less for a half scale B29 with 4 engines.

Now an off shore racing power
boat is another matter. That could really
use the power.

I guess my question  is: What are you going to
do with all that power?

Paul Lamar Happy New Year.



No offense taken, Paul. LOL. I'm not thinking of building anything for that kind of power per se, I was envisioning something of a 4 or 6-rotor parallel shaft contraption for unlimited air racing. That would be about the only use for that level of power. Well, that or some kind of home built cargo plane. One could just do a long stack of as many rotors as one wants as demonstrated many times, but I figured stacking them side by side would be a different way for a different shape, for instance, on wide-nosed aircraft.

I better lay off the eggnog.

... although a flying motor home sounds kind of nice come to think of it. :-)


Kind regards,
Jen Kimball


That comes to my mind every now and then. If it had at least 2000 mile range it would be fun to
tour the hundreds if not thousands of islands in the south pacific. Real expensive however.

Not only in gasoline but the cost of building such a large airplane.
Sailing take's for ever.

Paul Lamar

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