Saturday, June 03, 2023

FASCINATING VIDEO OF THE CONVAIR B-36 PEACEMAKER'S INTERIOR!

A legendary intercontinental bomber caught between two eras.





We've shown this clip from the movie Strategic Air Command, starring James Stewart, before:





Nite.



MFBB.

Sunday, May 28, 2023

LEGENDARY ENGINES: THE NAPIER DELTIC.

A magnificent video on yet another brilliant Napier product, the Deltic:





As you heard, before Napier, Junkers too found out there were problems with the correct phasing of the three cilinder banks. Where Junkers abandoned the triangular design and developed a 'square' variant with four banks, which apparently gave no problems, Napier found the solution. Or rather, a senior draftsman at Napier found it: simply making one of the three crankshafts run in the opposite direction to the other two!



MFBB.