Hi Guys,
I am afraid to not cause too hot feeling up there but all in my mind comes from good intentions;
thus excuse me if you can't handle this in a calm enough manner:
---> It looks from some responses that the twin-engine-fears will turn gradually into twin-panic-disorder ..[sm=spinnyeyes.gif]..
I like the simple things and thus the advices how to do it in a simple way seems the most useful while
the complicated things we should leave for NASA engineers for example. Thus I would like first to
thank for the advices and ask What is the Priority in all those good ideas, i.e. to ask one quite
DIFFICULT QUESTION to all who wrote so many pages with very good intentions indeed:
--->> Could you please list in order of priority the Top-10 Advices for RC Twin-Engine Airplanes ?
Let me try myself to sort out some conclusions; please delete this list if it is out of order, or just
update and re-order it:
1. Do Twins (airplanes, not g...s) = that is challenging: Sounds, Speed, Troubles - just hot essence of the life is there
beside the fact that two propelers are more efficient than one in the same total engine power and rpm;
just blame the Mother Physics for this, not me. Keep it cheap - it is going to crash sooner or later [sm=cry_smile.gif]
and what will remain is the experinced Excitement/Photos, ins't it ?! That is RC-hobby, do not try to
compete with NASA, Boeing etc, that is not possible on home-budget, they have been there forwever,
just about 100 years by 100 000 engineers, that is experience bigger than the Universe and there
are written a lot(!!!) of books how to do it; on RCU we can just prove to be very ignorat to those
achievements but that is not our goal, isn't it; we have HOBBY in mind only.
# 2. Place the two engines very close to each other, or even ... behid each other (Cessna, it was
finally agreed to be a bad idea about the pusher efficiency indeed due to turbulence), make large
wing-span to help the rudder, and big rudder controls with best servos one can afford. Why not
WarBirds - it looks Catalina is just the right Airplane constructed that way and tested and even
MEANT to work on ONE Engine only for saving fuel !!! Especially for FINLAND and Tuomo; in fact
I am also living in that Lakes-Country (althoug I do not speak properly Finnish) and considering
Catalina very seriously[sm=drowning.gif].
# 3. Place Gyroscopes on each(!) of the three(3) axes since they are 1000x closer to the problem
than the pilot is especially in the flight conditions, and they are about 10x times faster than
any fingers of RC pilot, and also they are 10x faster than the engine reaction on control.
#4. Make a THREE(3) ENGINE RC-Airplane - [sm=spinnyeyes.gif][sm=spinnyeyes.gif][sm=spinnyeyes.gif] it has been very well tested on several
WarBirds and might prove that 3 is easier to handle than 2, isn't it ?!?. Of course next step is maybe lot
more than 2 engines, for example even up 6 or more; of course it takes a great deal of
engine knowledge. And after that a Twin will be LOT MORE EASY than now, OK ?!

Cheers,
Nick[sm=wink_smile.gif]