Folks,

I was wondering if any of you know of any WW2 aircraft designs which flew using this engine arrangment. I know that the Avro 684 Stratospheric Bomber design used this engine layout (1 Master Merlin in the fuselege driving a very large intercooled supercharger, which supplied compressed air to the 4 wing mounted Slave Merlins), but this design was never built. It had truely amazing performance but i'm wondering if the Master-Slave concept is a viable propulsion option, as i've not heard of it being used in any operational aircraft.

Sbiper.