I've never seen many good pictures of the Widgeon with radial engines. All I can say is WOW, are those nacelles ever big. Anything I have ever read on radial engined Widgeons was that their performance was inferior to either the inline or flat engined ones. I can also see that in the event of an engine out condition there is going to be a lot of extra drag on the "dead" side of the plane.
On to other things. My Widgeon, (see page one of this thread) is finally approaching completion. Since I have not included a water rudder because things like that tend to get damaged with ground handling, I would like to know if anyone has programmed their Eclipse Seven for differential throttles for water handling? Obviously I want to link the rudder and throttle but I would also like to be able to deactivate the mixing for flight.
Thanks guys for keeping this thread interesting. I hope everyone had a great Christmas and that there are lots of new Widgeons in the new year.
Peter