You can almost trace a line all the way back to the P51 Mustang to the Tucano, I guess that would make the Bronco a super P38

Preach on... Since the fuel is burned somewhere else, it’s applied NIMBY

There wouldn’t be any doubt about that body count...

Darn shame an AC-130 wasn’t on station.

Most came from aircraft development in the 30's

The Napier Nomad stands out as an example of design outstripping technology. Modern materials and CAD might have made it successful.

I’ll have to look at it.. Sounds brutally expensive

Turbines made sense when fuel was cheap. Modern high - bypass turbofans engines are blurring the difference between turboprops and jets at this point! Ten tons of fuel and one ton of engine. Napier proposed one ton of fuel and ten tons of engine with the Nomad. Crazy , but still unsurpassed for low BSFC. A second…

As the easier solutions get used, the more involved ones come into play. The improvement in materials science make smaller scale hot parts possible. Similar setups are being researched for military applications (drones) where low BSFC is important

I’ve had that general topography in my mind since I was 13, and saw the turbocompound engines in an aviation junkyard. Why go to the trouble of a generator, couple the recovery turbine directly to the flywheel. Energy storage is a good thing, but the weight penalty of the electrical components is not trivial.

Common sense. So rare that it’s a super power.

Melting silicon takes a bunch of energy too.

Bad Motor Scooter! Built by the people that brought you Pearl Harbor.

The reason for the name soft head was that the the power stroke was delayed and extended so the connecting rod and crankshaft had a greater mechanical advantage. Larry Widmer had a ton of smarts in those areas. He’s not done much with automotive industry since. I suspect that he is working on powerplants for UAV’s

The hollow bolt setup was Rusty Wallace and Penske. Runt Pittman came up with the exhaust system.

The cylinder head wasn’t illegal, it advanced technology. Quench and swirl were well known before 1985, but never applied in NASCAR

It was part of the court case

He also moved the lap belt from Simpson’s location to a spot that minimized its effectiveness

Closed casket or cremation..

Took that gearqueer down a peg. It’s not the arrow, it’s the Indian