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What were they thinking? Is this in case one pilot gets taken out the plane can still land?
Actually, considering the P-51 was regarded as the best bomber escort in the later part of WWII, The F-82 was a natural progression. It still holds records.
What were they thinking? Is this in case one pilot gets taken out the plane can still land?
The F-82 was a rush design when the AF needed a heavy escort. Faster & easier to just bolt two P-51s together than to come up with a totally new airframe.
We are 11 episodes into the second season already.
I'll make sure to post all the pics when we are done...
BUT
I am proud of this one.
You can say this one is my baby.
We were given 36 hours to build a Formula type race car.
They provided us with an 689 cc, two cylinder, 74 Hp Yamaha bike engine complete with chain and rear sprocket, front control arms (Renault), new tires and rims, and some odds and ends, like hub adapters for a solid axle.
We would have to scavenge the junkyard for the rest.
I spent the first of those 36 hours, consuming several cups of tea and as many filter camels, to come up with this...
I really wanted to build something different, and make a statement.
I took off some coilovers from a couple of 150 cc four wheelers at the junkyard and went to work to build an inboard shock suspension for the rear...
I was able to control suspension travel AND stifness with this setup.
Minimizing unsprung weight in a sub 350 Kg vehicle is important.
Damn thing worked like a charm.
And I wanted to do even better for the front suspension...
Here is your monoshock, dual duty (shock absorption + swaybar), height and stiffness adjustable pull bar front suspension setup...
Camber is right around -4 degrees, Caster guesstimated at around 4-5 degrees, least amount of toe-in (couldn't go zero, ran out of steering rack) and pretty promising.
Ride height is 100mm (4"), and suspension travel is maybe between 1.5 and 2"..
My first boss out of college told me - some people are good because they've got it in the brain, some are good because they've got it in the hands, but once in a great while there's somebody who's special because they've got both. He was talking about Chemists(I worked in a lab), but it applies even more here.
Congratulations, Hakan. Impressive stuff.
I must admit that I'm having a hard time visualizing the geometry of this one, and how it moves:
Edit: nevermind. The lower tube pivots on the lower bolt, the bracket pivots on the upper bolt, and you pray (or, knowing you, don't pray) that the little tab at the bottom of the damper is really strong and that there's enough flex in the welds at the back.
Clever.
Edit ii: I guess there'd need be no flex if you really nailed the dimensions dead-on, while measuring with a scrap of chalk and a camel's femur, or whatever paltry measuring tools the producers gave you.
Edit iii: I used a ******* apostrophe in "producers" in edit ii. I have corrected this offense, but I am ashamed.
Edit iv: Not strictly relevant, but you haven't really discussed the quality of the tea recently, nor the quality of the stagehand who fetches said tea.
I'll try to live my life in a way that is worthy of such unadultered love...
On a completely relevant note, I drove the "car" on a track today.
It cornered just as I expected in terms of attitude, but I was unable to find its limit.
Meaning, I got scared before the car had a chance to lose traction.
It did, however, have exit oversteer, again, just as expected.
My first boss out of college told me - some people are good because they've got it in the brain, some are good because they've got it in the hands, but once in a great while there's somebody who's special because they've got both. He was talking about Chemists(I worked in a lab), but it applies even more here.
Congratulations, Hakan. Impressive stuff.
He never mentioned knees.
Holy crap, man, that is a pretty deep compliment. Thank you.
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