Bill,
With all your anxiety about the air start system, I saw this today and thought of you...
It's the business end of the 3rd stage of a Saturn V rocket, but I'm sure NASA would share some of those bottles around if you asked really nicely...
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- Fri Aug 28, 2015 1:09 am
- Forum: Bluebird Rebuild
- Topic: Technical Talk
- Replies: 915
- Views: 1017305
- Sat Apr 26, 2014 10:01 pm
- Forum: Bluebird Rebuild
- Topic: Pic of the Day
- Replies: 2374
- Views: 2384541
Re: Pic of the Day
I still think it was fundamentally the fuel system wot done it... Sorry I've not looked in for a while - just dropped by to read the diary and see if you've got any closer to running the Orph yet... Anyway, could help but think that it is never easy to say that one thing caused an accident. Search ...
- Wed Jan 29, 2014 11:58 pm
- Forum: Bluebird Rebuild
- Topic: Malcolm Campbell's 350 hp Sunbeam
- Replies: 16
- Views: 23313
Re: Malcolm Campbell's 350 hp Sunbeam
I wonder what shade of blue that is? (***ducks and runs for cover***)
- Fri May 24, 2013 9:51 pm
- Forum: Bluebird Rebuild
- Topic: Other Speed Record Breakers Are Available!
- Replies: 1117
- Views: 1199386
Re: Other Speed Record Breakers Are Available!
At least when Dave LeGrys took the bicycle speed record in 1986 he had the decency to use his own power to get to 110mph - albeit very close behind a pace car...
- Mon May 13, 2013 9:48 pm
- Forum: Bluebird Rebuild
- Topic: Technical Talk
- Replies: 915
- Views: 1017305
Re: Technical Talk
Mike, Some of your other readers will just think you are having a laugh with Photoshop... Seriously though, have you thought of doing a Haynes manual a bit like the one the Vulcan chaps did? I think though that you do have to live up to the motto of "every manual based on a full strip down and ...
- Mon May 13, 2013 7:30 pm
- Forum: Bluebird Rebuild
- Topic: Technical Talk
- Replies: 915
- Views: 1017305
Re: Technical Talk
Proper engineeringRenegadenemo wrote:Stuart, you will no doubt be delighted at this long-overdue news!
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- Tue Apr 23, 2013 11:02 pm
- Forum: Bluebird Rebuild
- Topic: Wiki Mystery
- Replies: 20
- Views: 25550
Re: Wiki Mystery
The trouble with Wiki is, anyone and everyone can meddle with it, so what it says now isn't what it'll say tonight, and so on. (Especially if it's flagged up now that it says something the usual suspects won't like!) Biggest contributor there by far would appear to be Neil, who seems to be turning ...
- Tue Apr 16, 2013 10:33 pm
- Forum: Bluebird Rebuild
- Topic: The Elephant In The Room
- Replies: 58
- Views: 63192
Re: The Elephant In The Room
Bill, For what it's worth... When engineering giants undertake complex projects, they enter into commitments to their shareholders, customers, suppliers, and employees. Their shareholders expect a premium over "putting the money in the bank", and their customers, suppliers and employers ma...
- Mon Feb 18, 2013 9:46 pm
- Forum: Bluebird Rebuild
- Topic: Other Speed Record Breakers Are Available!
- Replies: 1117
- Views: 1199386
Re: Other Speed Record Breakers Are Available!
How the Steam Record was broken Way back when (well, August 2009 anyway) Don Wales drove a steam powered car to a new record of 148.31mph. I saw the car on display at the Manufacturing Technology Centre in Ansty last week, and I can now reveal his secret weapon (with apologies for the quality of pi...
- Tue Jan 29, 2013 9:13 pm
- Forum: Bluebird Rebuild
- Topic: The Sponsons Thread
- Replies: 354
- Views: 318344
Re: The Sponsons Thread
That's a distance from "men in sheds" isn't it!!?? The shoes and wedges represent about 60 hours on the most amazing machining centre. We reckon the men in sheds would have literally spent months on this work. There was a hierarchy in the aerospace machine shops of old. Right up there at ...