"Montblack" wrote in message
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("Fred the Red Shirt" wrote)
I've also been thinking that one could design a radial engine that uses
off-the-shelf VW cylinders, pistons and maybe even scat heads. As with
most such ideas, someone else has already tried it:

http://www.hciaviation.com/pricing.shtml#standard


http://www.hciaviation.com/images/r220_big.jpg
I'm seeing the birth of Borg technology


Paul-Mont
5 of 7 & 7 of 9 sittin' in a tree...
K-i-s-s-i-n-g!
First comes (well me g) I mean, love...
Then comes, regeneration...

How about using inline 4 Cyl, one liter, liquid cooled motorcycle cylinder
blocks - say, from a Kawasaki GL1000. Mount 9 of them around a radial
crankcase that contains a planetary PSRU in the nose case. You would have a
36 cylinder, 9 liter replica of the Lycoming XR7755.

Bill Daniels