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Off topic, But thought you
might enjoy this.

http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/feature ... ingGiants/

Phil&Lisa Smith #460R N414D

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Imagine how one of these engines would make a Moose climb! Of course with 120
gallon tanks you'd only get 90 seconds of running time.

Subject: Top Fuel Dragster Trivia


So you want more horsepower? This puts things into perspective...

Top Fuel Dragster Trivia

One TF dragster's 500-inch Hemi makes more horsepower than the first 8 rows

at the Daytona 500.

Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 1 1/2 gallons of nitro per

second, the same rate of fuel consumption as a fully loaded 747 but with 4
times the energy volume.

A stock hemi will not produce enough power to drive the dragster's

supercharger.

Even with nearly 3000 CFM of air being rammed in by the supercharger on

overdrive, the fuel mixture is compressed into nearly-solid form before
ignition. Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock.

Dual magnetos apply 44 amps to each spark plug. This is the output of an arc

welder in each cylinder.

At stoichiometric (exact) 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture (for nitro), the flame

front of nitromethane measures 7050 degrees F.

Nitromethane burns yellow. The spectacular white flame seen above the stacks

at night is raw burning hydrogen, dissociated from atmospheric water vapor by
the searing exhaust gases.

Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass. After ? way, the

engine is dieseling from compression - plus the glow of exhaust valves at 1400
degrees F. The engine can only be shut down by cutting the fuel flow. If spark
momentarily fails early in the run, unburned nitro builds up in those
cylinders and then explodes with a force that can blow cylinder heads off the
block in pieces or split the block in half.

To exceed 300 mph in 4.5 seconds dragsters must accelerate at an average of

over 4G's. But in reaching 200 mph well before 1/2 track, launch acceleration
is closer to 8G's.

If all the equipment is paid off, the crew worked for free, and for once

NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run costs $1000.00 per second.

Dragsters reach over 300 miles per hour before you have completed reading

this sentence.

Top Fuel Engines turn ONLY 540 revolutions from light to light!

The redline is actually quite high at 9500rpm

The current TF dragster elapsed time record is 4.477 seconds for the quarter

mile (06/02/01 Kenny Bernstein)

Putting all of this in perspective:
You are driving an average Lingenfelter powered "twin-turbo" Corvette. Over

a mile up the road, a Top Fuel dragster is staged and ready to launch down a
quarter mile strip as you pass. You have the advantage of a flying start, but
you still run the 'Vette hard up through the gears and blast across the
starting line and past the dragster at an honest 200 mph. At this moment, the
dragster launches and starts after you. You keep your foot hard down, but you
hear an incredibly brutal whine that sears your eardrums and within seconds
the dragster catches and passes you. He beats you to the finish line, a
quarter mile away from where you passed him.

That, folks, is acceleration.

Think about it, from a standing start, this phenomenal machine has spotted

you 200mph and not only caught, but nearly blasted you off the road when he
passed you within a mere 1320 feet. Now, tell me about the time you spun the
wheels and laid rubber on dry concrete?!


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Hey Mike,

On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 00:29:54 -0900, you wrote:

Imagine how one of these engines would make a Moose climb! Of course

with 120

gallon tanks you'd only get 90 seconds of running time.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Yeah, but you'd BE THERE already!

Brian Lawson,
Bothwell, Ontario.



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I know this is off topic but it is aviation related and good for a chuckle

Dale





GUARANTEED TO MAKE YOU SMILE..... ESPECIALLY SINCE IT'S A TRUE STORY.



ON JULY 20, 1969, AS COMMANDER OF THE APOLLO 11 LUNAR MODULE, NEIL ARMSTRONG WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO SET FOOT ON THE MOON.



HIS FIRST WORDS AFTER STEPPING ON THE MOON, "THAT'S ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND," WERE TELEVISED TO EARTH AND HEARD BY MILLIONS.



BUT JUST BEFORE HE RE-ENTERED THE LANDER, HE MADE THE ENIGMATIC REMARK "GOOD LUCK, MR. GORSKY."



MANY PEOPLE AT NASA THOUGH IT WAS A CASUAL REMARK CONCERNING SOME RIVAL SOVIET COSMONAUT.



HOWEVER, UPON CHECKING, THERE WAS NO GORSKY IN EITHER THE RUSSIAN OR AMERICAN SPACE PROGRAMS.


OVER THE YEARS MANY PEOPLE QUESTIONED ARMSTRONG AS TO WHAT THE "GOOD LUCK, MR. GORSKY... STATEMENT MEANT, BUT ARMSTRONG ALWAYS JUST SMILED.


ON JULY 5, 1995, IN TAMPA BAY, FLORIDA, WHILE ANSWERING QUESTIONS FOLLOWING A SPEECH, A REPORTER BROUGHT UP THE 26-YEAR-OLD QUESTION TO ARMSTRONG. THIS TIME HE FINALLY RESPONDED.


MR. GORSKY HAD DIED, SO NEIL ARMSTRONG FELT HE COULD ANSWER THE QUESTION.



IN 1938 WHEN HE WAS A KID IN A SMALL MIDWEST TOWN, HE WAS PLAYING BASEBALL WITH A FRIEND IN THE BACKYARD.



HIS FRIEND HIT THE BALL, WHICH LANDED IN HIS NEIGHBOR'S YARD BY THE BEDROOM WINDOWS.


HIS NEIGHBORS WERE MR. AND MRS. GORSKY.

AS HE LEANED DOWN TO PICK UP THE BALL, YOUNG ARMSTRONG HEARD MRS. GORSKY SHOUTING AT MR. GORSKY.

"SEX! YOU WANT SEX?! YOU'LL GET SEX WHEN THE KID NEXT DOOR WALKS ON THE MOON!"

TRUE STORY.











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Very intersting article on MAM/Daryl Murphy in the January 08 issue of
BCSMALLBusiness
B.Breathnach


----- Original Message -----
From: "Wayne G. O'Shea" <oifa@irishfield.on.ca>
To: "Murphy Rebel Builders List" <rebel-builders@dcsol.com>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 8:50 PM
Subject: [rebel-builders] 10" Spinner for a McCauley O-320 prop

Anyone needs one... I've got one up on ebay. Would work well with the nose
bowl and doors cowling on a Rebel. Wayne

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... :IT&ih=013





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