Russ:

You will definitely have done a complete elimination of having offset thrust due to engine failure. But you will also have brought needless complication and complexity to replace it.

Have you checked to see how much power you will lose in the belt drives? How about the prop shafts running in greased or dry bearings? How long will they last at 10K rpm?

And how about... Never mind. Either you've done the engineering or you haven't.

I'll just point out that remote props have been tried many times, and abandoned every time. Wilbur and Orville had remote props driven from a central engine. And a modern development that could have used remote engines did not - the YF-22 Osprey - because of the transmission losses.

If yu've ever wondered why a helicopter's transmission gets so hot, it's those same losses.

I do not say it wont work, I just say there are better, and proven, ways to do it.

Bill, the naysayer (For the moment)