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C'mon guys..

..there's plenty of room in FS for those wierd Herons as well as the proper ones... :tuttut:

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Er, um, you've lost me :dunno:
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Avant-Garde-Aclue wrote:Er, um, you've lost me :dunno:
"Proper" Herons do not retract their landing gear. :dance:
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:lol:

The gear arrangement isn't the issue Felix....it's having those 'other' engines fitted that causes the twitching.....

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DelP wrote::lol:

The gear arrangement isn't the issue Felix....it's having those 'other' engines fitted that causes the twitching.....

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Oh, I know that, but why unconfuse someone who is already confounded?
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Post by migman29 »

Riley need st^^fing,messing about with a very nice aeroplane which has "proper" engines on it.

I mean,when we re-engined the P51,Boing 707,757,767,etc with Rolls-Royce products then we put "proper"engines in. :dance: :dance: .


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Don't forget Mark

The TriStar only ever had proper engines :smile:

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*My* Heron will have proper Rolls-Royce flat-six engines ...
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Post by DispatchDragon »

Just out of curioisity anybody know the story behind the Riley Rocket and the Riley Dove and WHY they were reengined????

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Leif..

I think it's just a classic case of the Yanks wanting to put a bigger lump into something.. or perhaps a 'known quantity' as the Lycoming IO-720 was no more powerful than the GQ 70Mk3 at 400hp. The Riley conversions were a lot more than fitting new engines though. The flightdeck was rebuilt, the wings were flush riveted, an airstair door was fitted and the conventional fin and rudder were binned in favour of a swept assembly. There appears to have been no 'real' advantage (performance wise) in doing any of this over the standard Dove :wink:

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