2, prop and engine. Same as yours.

I have only 1. No prop control.

Because that 1200 is pushing that 1 prop.

2 engines turning 2 props does not equal double horsepower. For example, 1 engine at 1700hp turning 1 prop will be much faster than 2 engines each turning 850. I thought everyone knew this.

As for the website corrections...... I don't care. You go look it all up.

You're avoiding the answers and trying to act like I am.

It doesn't matter what's on any of the websites. Here's the bottom line....

2 engines at 850 HP each turning it's own prop is not equal to the torque of 1 1700HP engine turning 1 prop. The single with the 1700hp engine will be much faster.

I was a C student. I'm amazed I'm the one explaining this to someone else.

3 I guess if you count the condition lever but it as nothing to do with setting your torque and ITT?

I'm not following the math. Why is one engine faster? What about airframe design?

Forget airframe design. Assume both airframes are exactly the same.

Simple - because a good portion of the additional power from the second engine is used to overcome its own drag and carry its own weight and the weight of the additional fuel it requires. If you want to go fast, adding a second engine is not a good way to do it.

An 850 HP engine is producing half the torque on 1 prop compared to the 1700 hp engine. It's not just drag and weight.

A car with 2 850 hp engines will be faster because both engines are powering the same 2 wheels. With and aircraft or boat, each engine has it's own prop. Speed is about the torque given to each prop.

Forget airframe design. Assume both airframes are exactly the same.

Have you ordered your 900 yet

Thank god. A smart guy.

Can you explain this better than me? Keep going.

There's flawed logic in here. Thrust is thrust. Drag is drag. Weight is weight.

If the point is that, say, a 2000 shp engine produces thrust x, how much thrust is produced by a 1000 shp motor? Less than x/2? Does an engine know if it's on a wing or on the nose?

No.

1700 is more thrust than 850

with 2 850's it's still only 850.

Florian! Help.

Pretty much what I found in my A-36 compared to the 58 baron. Baron climbed faster, but cruised only a 10 or 15 knots faster. The 58 wasn't quite twice the gross weight as the 36. It did get off the runway a bit earlier. That's comparing essentially the same fuselage in each plane: A-36 base, the 58 with the second engine. A pretty direct comparison. In addition to that additional engine and associated systems, more fuel to run that second engine and more redundant systems.