Morgans wrote:

"Montblack" wrote

Wonder if for all the trade-offs and compromises, you gain anything with

one

engine and two pylon props?


Montblack


I think so. Not too far off from my musings. Take a liquid cooled
motorcycle engine, run dual drive belts, one out each of the pylon mounts,
and with the smaller diameter props, you could run them faster to take
advantage of the high revving engine. You get to use Harley sized drive
belts and sprockets, readily available in junkyards everywhere. (the
sprockets, I mean)


In the article the airplane's pylons looked too thin to use belt drive.
Shaft drive maybe?

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired