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Old 01-18-2012 | 07:11 AM
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Default RE: Will YS ever go gas/petrol?

ORIGINAL: cmoulder

Matt,

Don't you have a secret electric project going on down there somewhere in the Jersey Skunkworks?
I did but helped out a flying bud and sold it to him. He needed a test bed and this one fit the bill perfectly

I could enter electric any time. I have Dave L and Dean P very close and these guys have all the answers I would ever need.

An electric twin for Pattern with counter rotators is one ticket around the contra's expense. Someone is working on such a project for certain. The concept affords all the benefits and also offers asymmetric thrust capability not possible with a contra...
I mean, how cool would it be to slave the motors to rudder? Knife edge loops would be done with the bottom motor driving and the top in reverse.... The M's bottom in last years P schedule would be NP

BUT that's really getting off the subject of YS and Petrol