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The Brit's finially did it

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chuck foster:
i used to be a crew member on a alcohol funny car, it would go 230 mph in 6 seconds flat.  :bugeye:
we worked on that car ALL summer trying to go faster, we spent close to 100 grand that summer and it wouldn't go any faster or quicker. :(
the next summer we bought a new car 175 grand and the best it ran was 5.90 seconds at about 238 mph.
what i,m trying to say is IT COST ALLOT OF MONEY TO GO A LITTLE BIT FASTER.

i don't miss the car at all, but it was fun at the time.

chuck

John Hill:

--- Quote from: bogstandard on August 26, 2009, 08:58:53 AM ---

Not really an earth shattering project.

I reckon that if they took the original design, stuck decent tyres on it, maybe a more efficient boiler, and they could have done it on a much smaller budget.

To me that looks like modern technology being worse than a relic from the past, and as such a total and disasterous failure, and nothing to be proud of.

Bogs



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However Bogs I expect the 1906 effort was near the peak for that technology whereas, hopefully, the 2009 effort represents a few advances in techniques that are still in their infancy.

NickG:
Yeah, I wasn't too impressed either considering the previous record holder was basically a stanley steamer - and that had proper pistons and a flywheel, none of this steam turbine malarky!

PTsideshow:
Well it wasn't very high on the news blip meter, as not so much as a yawn over here were it happened! :bang: :doh: :bang: :(

Baldrocker:

--- Quote ---I reckon that if they took the original design, stuck decent tyres on it, maybe a more efficient boiler, and they could have done it on a much smaller budget
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I'm with Bogs on that

--- Quote ---and that had proper pistons and a flywheel
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Too true lets compare apples with apples not apples with oranges.
BR

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