Tight Cowl

grabcad

This is my third take on how to "add more lightness" and minimize frontal area and skin while heeding manufacturing strictures. My earliest posts here were of art and thus very complete in exterior. This is my very recent effort at using a CAD program. I first met CAD 40 years ago and I was walking alongside the moving walkway all that time until now when I stepped onto the Engineering moving walkway. For tight cowls look at the exhaust stacks on a radial in a FW-190 then look at those on a PW 4360 used in a commercial Stratocruiser. Here I am headed more at an eventual 18 cylinder application. It's only complete in that it is stable. It can be rolled back and forth to figure out what has to happen to those lifter cylinders inside and outside of the case. I stop and smell the flowers at times. I make renders in Poser with figures just to keep it all man-rated.