Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Friday, March 19, 2010

Serious Drool-Inducing WANT!

Spitfire Mk26B:


I'm not a big fan of having fuel tanks behind the engine, as in a crash, that is a recipe for crispy-critters. But for this, I'd get nomex.

Not sure why the cruise speed with a V-8 engine is higher than Vne, but the bugger does move along. A Mk V Spitfire was 90 knots faster, but it did have a much larger engine, even if those eight .303s added some weight.

6 comments:

BadTux said...

They don't have any engine specs on the V8 posted yet, so maybe they just haven't updated their Vne figure to account for the V8 yet?

Let's see, a Rolls Royce Merlin was a 27L 1650 cu in V-12, yeah, *slightly* larger than the 4.3L V6 or the 5.7L V8 on offer here ;).

-Badtux the Engine Penguin

Anonymous said...

A Spit with general motors engines. Too bad.
You mean you want the girl, right?

Comrade Misfit said...

Saw, no, not this time. I want the airplane.

montag said...

Nice touch reproducing the original stick design. I wonder how it would do against this reproduction.

http://www.flugwerk.de/

smellsofbikes said...

Well, to be fair, the original Spitfire XVI had a VNE of over 400mph, and even the IX could cruise at over 360mph.
But boy is that pretty, and for that much aircraft, a claimed 1200 hour build time is amazing.

Comrade Misfit said...

Montag, those FW-190 and P-51 are full-sized with the engines to match. I'd rather buy a P-47 over a P-51, only because R-2800 engines are a lot easier to come by ()and far more reliable) than V-16 Merlins.

I'd like to see that Spit airframe beefed up for the Falconer engine. That would be a serious go-fast toy.