ORIGINAL: AirPac Models
What do you think which is more important? Any input welcome, thank you.
A. Two turbines for scale, but higher cost. (not this plane, the turbines cost)
or
B. Single turbine for economic
To answer that question I think you only need look at the F-18, and see how many people have built those as twin-turbine models vs single. The answer - VERY few.
Now, maybe this is partly because it's easier to "cheat" on the 18 than the 14 (due to there not being a tunnel between the engines), but nevertheless I think it shows that the number of people willing to fly a multi-engine turbine model is comparatively low. That presumably means that for a twin your R&D, tooling costs, etc., etc would have to be spread over a much lower number of kits / ARFs actually sold, so if I was in the market for a twin F14, I'd expect to pay accordingly.
Gordon