And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Burt Rutan is the archetype of the mad scientist of airplane design - what a creative mind! Outside the box so far there might as well not be a box ...
I read about this one years ago. The reason for the asymmetric design is the airplane flies true with either engine stopped. Most accidents involving light twins occur during single engine flight when the altered handling catches pilots out. The Boomerang has the same handling characteristics with both engines running, only the left engine running or only the right engine running. The Cessna 337 with it's centreline thrust design was an earlier attempt to solve the same problem.
Looks like a Blom und Voss aircraft design, the Germans had one of these asymetric designs for observation planes.
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DeleteRutan has the coolest toys.
Thats crazy looking
ReplyDeleteLike the P-38, no torque worries
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DeleteNope, I like symmetry in plane designs.
ReplyDeleteBurt Rutan is the archetype of the mad scientist of airplane design - what a creative mind! Outside the box so far there might as well not be a box ...
ReplyDeleteI read about this one years ago. The reason for the asymmetric design is the airplane flies true with either engine stopped. Most accidents involving light twins occur during single engine flight when the altered handling catches pilots out. The Boomerang has the same handling characteristics with both engines running, only the left engine running or only the right engine running. The Cessna 337 with it's centreline thrust design was an earlier attempt to solve the same problem.
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