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raygreenwood Sun Jan 12, 2025 8:39 pm

This may have already been posted about somewhere here in the 356 section. I am assuming these were from 356.

This is a YouTube channel about odd aircraft (a very ood channel). This US Navy weapons system that was never built was using a remote controlled, twin, counter-rotation helicopter to launch Mk-48 torpedos. This video right around the 6 minute mark states they were using 72 hp Porsche motors.

Interesting!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqQN4w3H_-E

Ray

wagen19 Mon Jan 13, 2025 10:26 am

raygreenwood wrote: This may have already been posted about somewhere here in the 356 section. I am assuming these were from 356.

This is a YouTube channel about odd aircraft (a very ood channel). This US Navy weapons system that was never built was using a remote controlled, twin, counter-rotation helicopter to launch Mk-48 torpedos. This video right around the 6 minute mark states they were using 72 hp Porsche motors.

Interesting!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqQN4w3H_-E

Ray

There were many 356 based aircraft engines, for ex:

678 / 0
678 / 1
678 / 3
678 / 3 A Bug-Flugmotor
678 / 4 Rumpf-Flugmotor

702 / 3 Hubschrauber-Motor
702 / 4 Hubschrauber-Motor

[email protected] Mon Jan 20, 2025 9:11 pm

I been looking for a 678 oil pump/ drysump pump ..engines are rare it's kind of cool knowing how cool and risky using a 356 engine for an aircraft ...I can see why they stopped ..but alot of guys use the vw type 1 engine still till this day for their small planes so maybe it wasn't as risky yes im counterdicting myself lol .

wagen19 Tue Jan 21, 2025 1:04 am

[email protected] wrote: I been looking for a 678 oil pump/ drysump pump ..engines are rare it's kind of cool knowing how cool and risky using a 356 engine for an aircraft ...I can see why they stopped ..but alot of guys use the vw type 1 engine still till this day for their small planes so maybe it wasn't as risky yes im counterdicting myself lol .

A VW - Porsche "mix - engine" was, is a german "Stamo" aircraft engine.
A machined 30 hp VW case, 74 Porsche crank + rods, 80 mm alu cylinders, flat pistons, machined 30 hp heads, stock cam.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamo_1400

http://www.enginehistory.org/Piston/HOAE/Stark.html



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