Could you make a single-engine plane with an NK-12? Would that be cool?

>>64027337 (OP)
Depends. Are you right behind the engine? I'd imagine with all that air blowing at you it would be pretty cool.

What would you use a single-engine aircraft for, which is slow but has the low-speed flight performance and power?

>>64027358
Sell them for civilian use and end private jets.

The vibration and noise of the propellers would likely be unpopular with private jet customers.

>>64027414
You could remanufacture them with improved quieting, scimitar blades, harmonic tuning etc.
The NK-12 is, after all, a 1950s design.

>>64027337 (OP)
There was one if you consider ekranoplans aircraft.

>>64027337 (OP)
I'm pretty sure I've seen a Soviet aircraft with a massive contraprop engine up front. It won't have been one of those but it was very "in your face".

>>64027848
Tu-91 Boot

>>64027863
That's the bugg3r. Thank you.

>>64027337 (OP)
Sure but it would need landing gear so high to make the props clear the ground it would be a death trap on the ground.

>>64027880
Why post the same picture, flipped, cropped, lower quality?

>single engine
If you can avoid a counter prop you'll avoid it, the gearbox and vibrations (long shaft) are problematic and only justifiable for a huge swept wing aircraft

D-27 is better looking.

>>64027963
Other side, different time different source.
Post your mom.

>>64027979

>>64028069
AT LEAST POST THE WYVERN
BAKA

>>64028022
>NSFW on blue board
Enjoy the 3 days vacation

>>64027358
>single-engine aircraft for, which is slow
The F4U was not slow.and had the best flight recond of the conflict.

>>64027819
>if you consider ekranoplans aircraft.
I do, they just suck.

>>64028054
>Other side, different time different source
It's exactly the same picture, flipped.

>>64028204
You need to either get spectacles or wait until your balls drop.
Go, play in traffic.

>>64028193
>best flight recond of the conflict.
No, the F6F was simply better in any situation.
The F4U was in service for a longer tine because like the P-38 it was a "sick fighter" rushed into service. And compared to the F8F it was bigger, that defined its value during the early post war for a naval attacker (see Skyraider). The F6F could have been better in that role but its production line was closed to make room for the F8F.

>>64028204
Show star in first image then show yourself out.

>>64027337 (OP)
Sure, why not?