Father Kit Cool Gun Garth Posted November 26, 2021 Share Posted November 26, 2021 So Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smuteye John SASS#24774 Posted November 26, 2021 Share Posted November 26, 2021 About how to minimize the weight part in the thrust to weight ratio. They were probably thinking the same thing as Carol Shelby was thinking 30 years later- just using airplanes instead of cars. Namely, take the biggest motor you can lay hand on and wrap it in the leastest excuse of a functioning vehicle you can get away with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailrider #896 Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 2 hours ago, Father Kit Cool Gun Garth said: So And notoriously unstable! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 So what were they thinking? ............ I'm not so sure that they were ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Bullweed Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Saw a replica at Oshkosh in 2012. Not sure what the pilot could see on take-off and landing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 “Yeah, but it looks cool!” Quite possibly famous last words used often through history. Or something similar fitting the the slang of the times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailrider #896 Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 Jimmy Doolittle flew one of these in competition. He survived. Others did not! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustin Checotah Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 I think that one is from Fantasy of Flight, in Florida. Kermit Weeks also has a yellow Gee Bee with the number 4 on it. I believe they are different models but I am not by any means an expert on them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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