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From: wanttaja@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ronald J Wanttaja)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Huff or Puff
Message-ID: <93@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Sep-84 15:01:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.93
Posted: Thu Sep 13 15:01:26 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 01:30:26 EDT
Organization: Boeing Aerospace, Seattle
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I've always heard that it was a toss-up between tractors and pushers.  With
a tractor, you loose some wing efficiency due to the disturbed airflow over
the wing, and with a pusher, you lose some propellor efficiency due to the
disturbed airflow to the prop.  Call me old fashioned, but I would 
prefer an efficient prop.  What all airplanes need, apparently, is the
engine(s) mounted on pylons like a Lake Amphibian.  The advent of jet
engines must have greatly decreased the breakdown rate for aeronautical
engineers......