It isn't one of those old Gnome engines that lets off Castor oil all the time. I guess with those planes you had to land every couple of hours, else there could be a wee problem.
Regards, Joerg
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ugly cars
Dec 01, 2012
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Needs a carefully chosen shear key, but I don't think you *could* jam that. Sounds like a Cummins at idle... they stop when they run out of fuel, not before.
Yeah, that looks like a widow maker.
Les Cargill
That "uncar" is real crap..
Gee..i thought the Studebaker was supposed to take the medal for going VS coming, but that THING beats it all to hell. About as ugly as that "uncar".
For me, it depends on the interior, 'cos that's the bit that I have to look at. What it looks like on the outside doesn't matter. I don't care what other people have to put up with ;-)
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence
over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
(Richard Feynman)
As a physicist, you'll appreciate the disadvantages of having a large diameter, rotating, lump of iron, on the front of an aircraft, when trying to do turns.
I believe that the rotary engine was a French invention, (Gnome, LeRhone, Clerget, etc.).
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence
over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
(Richard Feynman)
That's the way I feel about washing cars. I clean the windows, because I have to see through them.
John Larkin Highland Technology Inc
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The lamps, too, I hope ;-)
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence
over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
(Richard Feynman)
It does noticably affect the way other drivers behave. A crappy old car with a bang or two, and some will give you particularly wide berth. A sporty 2-seater and it seems to drive certain truck owners mad and they start driving aggressively and menacing you.
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Best regards, Spehro Pefhany
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For some odd reason, when I tailgate people on I80 in my flaming red A3, they seem to think that I want to go fast, and they pull over.
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My rust-colored Ford Fiesta didn't seem to do that.
John Larkin Highland Technology Inc
www.highlandtechnology.com jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com
Precision electronic instrumentation
Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators
Custom timing and laser controllers
Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links
VME analog, thermocouple, LVDT, synchro, tachometer
Multichannel arbitrary waveform generators
radial.
trying
Thank you for the excessive compliment, but i am merely an EE. But once the engine in operation is seen the problems are quite obvious.
?-)
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