In article , "PAW" wrote:


Yeah, but: that reduced efficiency comes at the price of needing a place to
dump the extra heat. A previous poster pointed out rightly that you would
probably need another radiator to get rid of it all. Radiators in general are
one of the worst parasitic drags on an aircraft.

All the same, the ideal is intriguing.

tom pettit

That's a thought.... movement without the props turning. A Mazda 13b turbo
can do 250-300 hp EASY. Power available for the pumps shouldn't be a
problem. At least, *I *can't see how it could.