Twin engine pattern

[ronlock at comcast.net]

Would it fly like our current designs?  I think there will be quite noticable differences due to motor weight in wings adding inertia to rolling maneuvers.
Rolls will be a bit harder to start and stop.  Not a real big problem in smooth maneuvers, but will be an extra challenge to deal with in snap rolls and spin entries.  A sport aerobatic twin I built and flew for a while with OS .40FP (light glow .40s) in typical wing nacel location showed those characteristics.
Later, Ron Lockhart


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I've seen an older plane called the Dualist that's a 60 sized patternlike twin but has anyone ever attempted a larger scale twin plane? I have an engineer friend that has this idea that an electric (outrunner) twin with counter rotating props would be worthwile experiment. I'd like to support his experiment but I'm pretty sceptical about it's possible merits. Can a twin plane fly like our current designs? Any thoughts on this would be appreciated from the vast knowledge you guys have. Thanks, Mike
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