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01-26-2023, 07:59 PM
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01-27-2023, 01:11 AM
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IIRC in some places a safety cage around the propellers of outboard motors is required in order to decrease risks for marine wildlife, so a similar approach could be tried if a propeller-driven car was really worth the endeavour.
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01-27-2023, 01:39 AM
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Why scrape about the surface when you can untether from earthy bounds?
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Trains came with jet engines.
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Turbojet train
A turbojet train is a train powered by turbojet engines. Like a jet aircraft, but unlike a gas turbine locomotive, the train is propelled by the jet thrust of the engines, rather than by its wheels. Only a handful of jet-powered trains have been built, for experimental research in high-speed rail. Wikipedia
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02-01-2023, 02:15 AM
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Even though FOD could ruin a jet engine, the engine in a jet train was supposed to be at a position which would render some accidents more unlikely. Years ago, a former teacher of mine mentioned an accident which happened with a Varig engineer, whose hands and part of the forearms were chopped by the core of an aircraft engine which I don't remember if it was a pure-jet or a turboprop. |
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02-01-2023, 05:27 PM
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https://www.hagerty.com/media/opinio...propeller-car/
In which an entertaining automotive writer and an entertaining operator of a museum for oddball cars go for a little spin.
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Are you buying it?
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Your 1932 HELICRON propeller car is a miracle of modern engineering with an engine too powerful for its own good!
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Rear-wheel steering requires caution. Please do not turn so quickly that the car lifts a front wheel, topples onto its side, or drifts the propelling blades into the path of oncoming vehicular traffic.
This behavior is entirely normal and in many counties legislated as ordinary and no one should be alarmed at all.
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02-01-2023, 07:36 PM
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