Sidemounted engine

[george kennie]

Good point, Jeff!

Jeff Hughes wrote:

> Though on a pattern plane, side mounted is just point of view. In
> knife edge an inverted engine is now side mounted. We're all going to
> have to go to twins to solve this issue!
>
>      ----- Original Message -----
>      From: Nat Penton
>      To: discussion at nsrca.org
>      Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 6:01 PM
>      Subject: Sidemounted engine
>       Looking at the undesirable forces that would be generated
>      by the assymetric distribution of weight to achieve lateral
>      balance - hard yaw or tight corners would produce no effect
>      because all components would be subject to the same
>      acceleration. There would be an effect during roll, however,
>      because the masses are subjected to different rates of
>      acceleration (polar ) . Our planes damp and reach steady
>      state roll rapidly . These unwanted roll forces would cause
>      a change in pitch ( same as when one aileron has more throw
>      ) during their short life . The magnitude of the pitch
>      change would be hard to quantify ( by me ) .
>
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