« Reply #9 on: July 14, 2019, 12:22:06 pm »
Two Armstrong Siddeley Python turboprops would be about right: 4110hp and 3450lb each.
Two Pythons: 8220hp, 6900lb
Four Griffons: approx. 7840hp, 7920lb.
These are plenty of cheap Wyverns around to butcher, and you could always stick a pair of Nenes from a Lancastrian testbed conversion on the outer nacelle positions to give a real hot-rod...
I have a plan using Pythons on a Shackleton (IIRC I had written about it here too sometime ago). As the air intakes for the engine are right at the backend of it, I was thinking of doing something similar to how the Herald has it's turbo-prop engine intakes. Sorts out the undercarriage at the same time.
I’ve a FROG MR3 built a bazillion years ago that I want to rebuild as a whif. Love the twin Python idea, never struck me before.

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