Can we please stop hotlinking pics?

aircooled wrote:

Holy cow…the cg would need to be right around the rear canopy seam which means that either the engines are super light like some sort of ram jets or it’s a flying bomb with a nose packed with explosives.

Either the beginning or the end of a flight in this thing would be interesting.

RX Reven' wrote:

aircooled wrote:

Holy cow…the cg would need to be right around the rear canopy seam which means that either the engines are super light like some sort of ram jets or it’s a flying bomb with a nose packed with explosives. Either the beginning or the end of a flight in this thing would be interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focke-Wulf_Ta_283

Ramjets is the answer.

Lot #283, which went unsold....

Oh man, I was saving that train for page #2839...fortunately, I’ve got 2839 Annette in my back pocket which of course is the asteroid discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in the late 20’s while he was searching for Pluto.

turboswede wrote:

DukeOfUndersteer wrote:

Well, that's one way to avoid a 2-second penalty.

bruce can fly

nickel_dime wrote: Damn, I missed page 280. Here's mine anyway

That valve cover is art. I think I remember reading somewhere that you did it yourself.....

JoeyM wrote:

turboswede wrote:

DukeOfUndersteer wrote:

Well, that's one way to avoid a 2-second penalty.

bruce can fly

The question is can he land.

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Edit cause the first one disappeared

Where I work/What I do

Jeff wrote:

oldsaw wrote:

neon4891 wrote: my newest (bad)idea...

Bad ideas are never new. I have original first and second editions of the handbook:

Ah, the geodome. I wouldn't build one unless I never planned on selling it. They get killed on re-sale. If I was going to build, I'd do a barn home. Probably just as bad on re-sale.

It would be on the same 6 acres as my parents trailer...

Because we don't have enough three-rotor Mazda-powered Sprites in this thread.

Then do it!

HappyJack wrote: Where I work/What I do

We just started getting the super sized version in. Nice unless it's hot out. I guess you don't need much AC in Canada.

DukeOfUndersteer wrote:

And your point is?

JoeyM wrote:

nickel_dime wrote: Damn, I missed page 280. Here's mine anyway

That valve cover is art. I think I remember reading somewhere that you did it yourself.....

Yes I did and what a major PITA it was. I will never do that again.

nickel_dime wrote:

JoeyM wrote:

nickel_dime wrote: Damn, I missed page 280. Here's mine anyway

That valve cover is art. I think I remember reading somewhere that you did it yourself.....

Yes I did and what a major PITA it was. I will never do that again.

It looks fabulous, FWIW. You represent L-series motors in a manner that gives the rest of us pride.

"Back in the Day" when I was crewing in IMSA, the 300zx had recently been brought out. Many racers were using the L 28 engine instead of the VG30, as they had not learned how to get real power out of the V 6. I guess that changed.