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Re: Beaufighter Engines
Posted by david J burke on Sat May 11, 2002 01:41:29 PM
In reply top Re: Beaufighter Engines posted by George on Sat May 11, 2002 12:12:43 PM
George - I will be amazed if they manage to get Hercules 216's to fit her. Tim Moore at Skysport went down the engine road at the start of his rebuild and has acquired a pair of early Hercules to bolt in . The rear accesory case is far longer in the later marks and in many respects the engine is quite different to the early marks.
I would think that it would be far easier for them to fit a Wright Cyclone engine rather than go to the drastic reverse engineering that I suspect will be necessary.