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Blériot53 Posted at 10-5 04:01
I had to look that up on Google
Could have been fun. Didn't they revamp that idea in one of the Bond films with Sean Connery?
Little Nellie they called it.
Yes, indeed.
The Benson B6 was designed for a 2 cylinder, McCulloch air-cooled engine, but could also take a VB Beetle 1600cc engine, as it is flat and air-cooled (but 4-cyclineder).
However, for the Bond movie the engineer had only a 4-cyliner, air-cooled Rolls Royce engine aircraft.
He reckoned it looked much too big so he cut it in half, to give him a 2-cylinder engine, but he discovered that the 2-cylinder chopped engine produced 2/3 the power of the 4-cylinder, rather than just half. |
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