Official Meme Thread. [NO POLITICS]

[p1l0t]

Originally Posted by Ashikabi

Meanwhile in P1lots big flashy work airplane...

Haha yeah but those aren't owned by me anyway I just get to fly them (still pretty cool though). I am in a flying club where me and 40 other pilots own & operate 3 airplanes.. so I guess I could say I own 1/40th of 3 airplanes... (small ones though, piston-singles, not $6 million dollar turboprops)

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[Ashikabi]

Originally Posted by p1l0t

Haha yeah but those aren't owned by me anyway I just get to fly them (still pretty cool though). I am in a flying club where me and 40 other pilots own & operate 3 airplanes.. so I guess I could say I own 1/40th of 3 airplanes... (small ones though, piston-singles, not $6 million dollar turboprops)

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Swap an airplane motor into your 86

[p1l0t]

Originally Posted by Ashikabi

Swap an airplane motor into your 86

It's the same shit, horzontally opposed 4 banger.





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[p1l0t]

The only reason the little airplanes are faster is because we go in a staright line (no turns, no traffic lights, no speed limits), the air gets less dense the higher you go so less drag, and the power weight is closer to that of a motorcycle since the airplane is only 1500-1800lbs empty.

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[Ashikabi]

Originally Posted by p1l0t

It's the same shit, horzontally opposed 4 banger.





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RIP. Guess I imagined them to be somehow bigger and better. I don't know anything about airplane motors except I read once that rotary engines were common. Iirc old WW2 planes seemed to have quite a few exhaust pipes but maybe modern technology made that style of engine obsolete. Or the lack of need for that level of performance

[p1l0t]

Originally Posted by Ashikabi

RIP. Guess I imagined them to be somehow bigger and better. I don't know anything about airplane motors except I saw once that rotary engines were common. Iirc old WW2 planes seemed to have quite a few exhaust pipes but maybe modern technology made that style of engine obsolete. Or the lack of need for that level of performance

Airplanes are great for their shape, it's the way they manipulate fluid dynamics. They don't even need the engine to fly. (Only to climb, the ability of an airplane to climb is excess HP). All airplanes glide, some better than others, but even a typical piston-single I can go 10 miles for every mile I'm up to find a place before I have to land with a dead engine.

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[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Ashikabi

RIP. Guess I imagined them to be somehow bigger and better. I don't know anything about airplane motors except I read once that rotary engines were common. Iirc old WW2 planes seemed to have quite a few exhaust pipes but maybe modern technology made that style of engine obsolete. Or the lack of need for that level of performance

Yep, that's been tried ......


humfrz

[p1l0t]

The PT6A out of the airplanes I fly for work would a bit peppier... but they wouldn't fit really unless you sat next to it or something.



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[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by p1l0t

The PT6A out of the airplanes I fly for work would a bit peppier... but they wouldn't fit really unless you sat next to it or something.

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[Ashikabi]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Yep, that's been tried ......


humfrz

That thing looks like a death trap.

Originally Posted by p1l0t

The PT6A out of the airplanes I fly for work would a bit peppier... but they wouldn't fit really unless you sat next to it or something.



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Put it in the back

[p1l0t]

Originally Posted by Ashikabi

That thing looks like a death trap.

Put it in the back

Maybe one that isn't reverse-flow..

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[Tcoat]

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by p1l0t

It's the same shit, horzontally opposed 4 banger.

And some have Subaru engines in them (This is an EA-81 auto conversion)

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Ashikabi

That thing looks like a death trap.

Put it in the back

Welp, back in my drag racing days, this was the machine to watch ......

Yep, back in the 50's, a couple of good ol boys (Walt & Art Arfons) from Akron, Ohio, pulled an engine out of a P-51 Mustang fighter and set it on a dragster frame.

That's when they found out that the shutdown area of Kilkare drag strip in Dayton, OH was getting too short.

Yep, I was there one night and watched the "green monster" disappear into the woods .....


humfrz