MORE random pics......

[Bob Goding]

[QUOTE=varmint;3732119]red planes....

Here we go--aircraft recognition!

1 and 2--Pitts[read it on the tail!] Big Stinker with russian Vedenev engine?

3 / 4 /5--Stork

6 Travelair

7 has me thinking ,maybe a Starduster?

Hows that?

[varmint]

you got 4 out of 4.


all currently for sale on trade a plane. the starduster is going for $1200. if i had a big enough house, it would be on the wall as sculpture.


i really want the stork. got to fly in a real one when i was little. it did things i thought nly a helicopter could do.

[URY914]

Originally Posted by Bob Goding

looks like Jack Brabham in the background, so that would be the Repco V8 that they used in F1--I recall it was single cam per bank.but that one is obviously a twin cam.
Brabham Repco first V8 was Buick block based.
Edit:- I was a young ,would-be petrol head in Melbourne Australia, back then. I did a bit of research and came up with this----
so my memory is still OK!
http://forums.autosport.com/showthread.php?threadid=65534

The picture has the following caption...
"McLaren's first Grand Prix car meets the Press at Colnbrook , December 1965:"

[Moses]

[Joe Bob]

Izzat Dennis Kucinich?

[kach22i]

Vette engine for $17,500
http://turnkeyenginesupply.com/or_60770.htm

[Bob Goding]

Originally Posted by URY914

The picture has the following caption...
"McLaren's first Grand Prix car meets the Press at Colnbrook , December 1965:"

Oh Dear! Time to pull my head in!---That would be the scaled down Ford Indy V8 then.

[onlycafe]

[kach22i]

Sea Scout:
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/cat/na...ittoral/page/5/


Oregon Iron Works - Portland OR
http://www.barnardmicrosystems.com/L4E_sea_plane.htm


Barnard Microsystems
http://www.barnardmicrosystems.com/L4E_sea_plane.htm

The Flying Fish The University of Michigan

OS Engines
http://www.osengines.com/engines/osmg1320.html

Displacement: 0.809 cu in (13.3 cc) x 4
Bore: 1.091 in (28 mm)
Stroke: 0.866 in (22 mm)
Practical rpm: 1,800-8,500
Output: 4.1 hp @ 8,000 rpm
Weight: 77.3 oz (2,190 g)

http://www.barnardmicrosystems.com/L4E_2_rotor_helicopter.htm



http://www.barnardmicrosystems.com/L4E_flying_saucer.htm

[daepp]

Originally Posted by kstarnes

Does it get any more random than that??????????

What is going on in that photo?

[daepp]

[/QUOTE]

One of the great articulated locomotives from the 20th Century. A truly great American accomplishment. So long they had to be hinged in the middle. Two complete separate engines/boilers in one locomotive. Some were compounded - used the steam more than once. The Baldwin Big Boy won a prestigious mechanical engineering award for design and complexity. I got to see one pulling the Cajon grade about 12 years ago - a sight to see (and hear)!!!

[kach22i]

http://www.flowtv.org/?p=796

[Jeff Higgins]

Originally Posted by daepp

One of the great articulated locomotives from the 20th Century. A truly great American accomplishment. So long they had to be hinged in the middle. Two complete separate engines/boilers in one locomotive. Some were compounded - used the steam more than once. The Baldwin Big Boy won a prestigious mechanical engineering award for design and complexity. I got to see one pulling the Cajon grade about 12 years ago - a sight to see (and hear)!!!

Articulated locomotives, including the Big Boy, were not exactly "hinged in the middle". The two seperate sets of drivers articulated under a common boiler. Early "Mallet" style engines were both articulated and compounded, with two distinctly different types of cylinders driving the two seperate sets of drivers. In a "compound" Mallet, the rear cylinders are driven directly off of boiler steam, and their exhaust drives the front cylinders. The front cylinders are noticably larger on a compound Mallet, running at much lower steam pressure than the rears. More modern articulated locomotives were "simple" rather than "compound" driven, with all four cylinders running directly off of boiler steam. This was considered more efficient than a compound locomotive. The Big Boy was one such locomotive. Here is a true "Mallet", or articulated compound.

[daepp]

But aren't the two sets of drivers independent of one another with respect to their position on the tracks and to the chassis of the locomotive?

[chapo]

I don't think there are any Big Boys left running. There is one on display at the Pomona Fairgrounds. You may have seen the Union Pacifics Challenger, similar to a big boy, 4-6-6-4 I think

[chapo]

'Worlds Largest operating steam engine" Challenger

[BRPORSCHE]

Found this on a different site. Really see how Porsche evolved.

[IROC]

I always chuckle when I see "Boxster" listed under "Entry Level" along with the 912 and 924.

[Jeff Higgins]

Originally Posted by daepp

But aren't the two sets of drivers independent of one another with respect to their position on the tracks and to the chassis of the locomotive?

Yup; they do move independantly - they "articulate". They are hung from one common frame under a common boiler, however, so the whole engine isn't really hinged in the middle. Typically the rear set of drivers are fixed on that frame, and the front set is free to pivot and slide in a big crescant shaped slot. The pilot truck usually pivots with that front set. It's hard to see on the real thing, as they don't move much, so here is a shot of a model locomotive with the movement exagerated:

[URY914]

Originally Posted by Bob Goding

Oh Dear! Time to pull my head in!---That would be the scaled down Ford Indy V8 then.

That why I posted the picture of the Ford Indy engine.