Could the Lycoming XR-7755 make the XB-35 viable before war's end?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycoming_XR-7755

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_YB-35

I'm not saying it stays in service, but would the counter-rotating propeller capacity on this engine potentially solve the problem? Thoughts?

Jack Northrop was one of the three best aircraft designers and aviation engineers on the planet. If he deemed the government supplied CRAP he was issued and told to use was unsuitable, it was unsuitable. Nothing wrong with the Pratts, but those gearboxes for the contra-rotators were junk.

Also Stuart Symmington was a no good rotten son of a ______.

As for the Lycoming? Heat problem was never solved. Past a certain displacement you just cannot cowl an ICE aero-engine without it catching fire and/or blowing apart.
 
Jack Northrop was one of the three best aircraft designers and aviation engineers on the planet. If he deemed the government supplied CRAP he was issued and told to use was unsuitable, it was unsuitable. Nothing wrong with the Pratts, but those gearboxes for the contra-rotators were junk.

Also Stuart Symmington was a no good rotten son of a ______.

As for the Lycoming? Heat problem was never solved. Past a certain displacement you just cannot cowl an ICE aero-engine without it catching fire and/or blowing apart.

The YB35 just could not be made a stable bombing/recce platform, they tried but just could not crack it. Tailless delta's were only really doable when they were able to build a working fly by wire system.
 
The YB35 just could not be made a stable bombing/recce platform, they tried but just could not crack it. Tailless delta's were only really doable when they were able to build a working fly by wire system.

That was the excuse, yes, but Northrop made an analog workaround. He used the engines and nacelles as rudder control.


It was the YB-49 that was unstable. His solution did not work with jet engines.

 
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