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Published: 2010-12-23 10:03:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 2938; Favourites: 57; Downloads: 81
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Frontal view of the W-3 racer.Thanks for viewing.
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Thanks to have included the date (1936) to imagine the background...
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First of all: thanks for the fav ! The layout of the W-3's fuselage really looks like it's been built for an inline design or an X-type powerplant - and in my imgagination quite a number of international well to do madmen (Like Bianco Castafiore) buy W-3 racers to mount engines and superchargers of their choice (just to scrap them after one record run). Eldorados aviation industry still focuses on radial layouts, though, and thus the "corybants" (the engineers of citizen Hugges' top secret Westworld facility) produced a quite souped up triple row radial powerplant. Of course this concept cries "cooling issues !", due to the comparatively narrow cowling design, but like Focke Wulf with their BMW 802, this could have been solved by an internal blower wheel and a rotation of the serial cylinder dics to optimize internal airflow and cooling. However, with a hobby like this a lot of dough for burned out engines should be mandatory. Just trying to imagine, what the remaining torque does to the light airframe, if one engine fails.
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looks like a land-based schneider trophy plane. X type engines let me guess?
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