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[URY914]

[URY914]

[URY914]

[James Brown]

Originally Posted by porsche4life

Very cool James! Did you get to ride in it?

nope, just parked it in our hanger. I did touch it!

[kach22i]

Aero Testing the 1973 Mopar Missile Drag Racing Car (Plymouth Duster)
Aero Testing the Mopar Missile

The Chrysler drag race group had a very limited budget. The renting of a full size wind tunnel, if it was available, was
out of the question. They had to do it the old fashion way, taping cotton tufts to the car, then using a chase car with
the racer traveling at high speed passing the chase car.

What the heck?

There are about a dozen photos of the front, and not one of the rear where drag is created.

Maybe they were just testing the hood scoop?

[kach22i]

Contest Archive-EXPERIMENTAL | Hawkeye's Squawkbox/The Plastic Scale Modeling Hour



​This Wacky Sci-Fi Plane-Helicopter Hybrid Was Totally Almost a Thing

Developed between 1951 and 1953 by a joint research team from the Air Force and Army, working with NASA and Sikorsky Aircraft, the XV-2 (model number S-57) was built to exceed the speed limitations of helicopters without giving up its vertical takeoff and landing capabilities. To do this, the XV-2 would have to employ a "stowed rotor," which would stop, fold, and retract into the fuselage of the delta-wing aircraft as it hit cruising speed. But getting a traditional multi-blade rotor to stop and fold itself into the fuselage proved quite impossible.

Sikorsky XV-2
Sikorsky XV-2 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


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http://hawkeyes-squawkbox.com/contest-table/contest-archive-experimental/

[kach22i]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aBOmBzcgPE


Video in link above.

[gordner]

Originally Posted by James Brown

nope, just parked it in our hanger. I did touch it!

My company is the Canadian dealer for the Honda Jet, I managed to do a demo flight in one. Very quiet aircraft, was a nice ride.

[kach22i]

Crossley Cars in the 1930s



Crossley Cars in the 1930s

A strange diversion - the Streamline

A real oddball was the Crossley Rear Engined Streamline based on Burney patents of which 25 were made in 1934. One of Burney's ideas was that heavy items should be carried at each end of the car. The engine at the rear accounted for one end and, unlike the original Burney, the radiator and battery compensated at the front. The car used the Silver's 2 litre engine with Wilson preselector gearbox. It also retained Burney's idea of storing the spare wheel inside one of the rear doors which cannot have helped the structure. To assist the streamlining the rear track was 13 inches less than the front. The Motor testers got a maximum of 78mph and could have gone faster except for repair work at the Brooklands track. On the styling they commented "Whether or not the resulting appearance is pleasing to the eye is a matter of individual taste".

At least two examples survive, one, the prototype in private hands and the other in the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu. It was a strange looking car and so unconventional that it must have been hard to sell. The 1934 price of £750 was reputed to be loss making so the 1935 price of £395 seems to be rather desperate.

More here:
Crossley Streamline Data

Drive shaft
Rear engined. Drive via Cardan Shafts.

What's a Cardan shaft?

Is that like a CV joint?

[kach22i]

Streamline Cars Ltd – The Burney Car | The Old Motor




Burney Streamline (1930) - Blog


Burney Streamline (1930) - Blog

[Joe Bob]

At the bank.....geez, Fuglee....

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by Joe Bob

At the bank.....geez, Fuglee....

Call it a "retro" look, all dependent on taste.

I know that stance after removing +200 lbs out of my car.

Bet it's still fun to drive.

Claveau model, rear-engine prototype with a monobox body, uniting... News Photo | Getty Images

Claveau model, rear-engine prototype with a monobox body, uniting construction with aerodynamic shape, 1927.

[Aragorn]

Sebring 2015

[daepp]

Holy polar moment!

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[daepp]

Nice double OH cam - he looks pretty proud if it! I didn't realize that was available in the 20's. Goes to show what I know!

[daepp]

Serious dedication!

[cashflyer]

[bugstrider]

Saw this in a turnout on Hwy49 while enroute to work today.







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[widebody911]

I think a bra looks hideous on a 356