Re: [SkunkworksAMA] New file uploaded to SkunkworksAMA

From: ~Corwyn <Corwyn_Talia_at_mailcity.com>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 02:18:33 -0500

A TURBINE that gets milage like that off of PROPANE?! And it can do so at 150 MPH?!

If the girls can build an engine like that and make it fit a semi-standard motorcycle frame, then I can't understand why the little engineering masters aren't making a mint off of the superior brain power they posses. Because I for one KNOW the navy would pay out the rear for something like that.

Of course, they'd be hunted down by the auto-manufacturers and oil barons of the world and either bribed hugely to keep it quiet or have a price on their heads.


Not to mention Jim must be a brave damn idiot to have a four-seater bike, fully loaded, and taking it into a turn at 150 with four bodies on it, none of which with safety gear. (Not like it would matter if you had a helmet on at that speed if you wiped out.)

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~Corwyn
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On Tue, 14 May 2002 17:54:39  
 Scrapper BlackDragon wrote:
>Okay, before you get too excited, I happen to be an
>engineer, a biker and full of trivial numbers, so the
>specs, allowing turbine jet propulsion and appropriate
>fairing, are possible.  Not very likely, but still
>do-able.  Allow me to illustrate...
>
>--- Cedric <cedric_at_deru.com> wrote:
>> "Assuming the bike itself was possible, gunning the
>> machine up to 120mph(? how would this be measured?)
>Same as aircraft.  Low power radar or pedo tube
>(airspeed)
>
>> merely to move off a regular driveway 
>> would result in the bike spinning it's tire, leaving
>> a huge cloud of smoke and probably ruining the tire
>>from the heat of friction and rubber loss."
>Top fuel dragsters develop around 1000hp and they use
>tyres, but no reference was made about whether it was
>using the tyre to drive.  Gas turbine (there were cars
>that used them, French mostly) is often better used
>like a jet engine.
>
>> Fade in to a slide of the bike, with Jim aboard the
>> beast with a  demonically happy look on his face and
>>the girls hanging on for dear life
>Anyone who is into drags would know the feeling well! 
>Hence reference of slowing to a more comfortable
>speed...  The ZX9R I ride still has two gears to go at
>120mph. (Tops out around 175mph.)
>
>> "The 5g corner just would not happen due to the
>> massively spinning tire, 
>NASCAR drivers are fequently exposed to up to 5g while
>cornering.  Under brakes a GP race bike exerts around
>7g, and that is nearly all on the front tyre, so can
>be done.
>
>> This message brought to you by the Alliance to put
>> more Science in Fiction.
>> "Ruining the suspension of reality for over 15
>> years."
>And sci-fi being justified by some fool (me) who knows
>his physics...
>
>> "now back to "53 More Things to do in Zero Gravity",
>> starring Desiree!"
>Cool!  *throws calculator and engineering text book
>over shoulder, sits back in couch to watch*
>
>Smile, at least you weren't riding it!  :-)
>
>Scrapper, Black Dragon, who tries to stay in the realm
>of vaguely credible....
>
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