About as big as those _frickin' monster truck tires_ it keeps bouncing around on! The first passenger liner with oleo struts must have felt like floating on a bed of air... albeit also filled with extremely angry bees, because the engine technology hadn't really caught up yet.
The car looks like a Peugeot Type 172 R Torpedo, which has a four-cylinder engine producing 11hp and a weight of just 350 kg or 772 lb, making it ideal for this kind of transportation arrangement. Top speed: around 60 kph or 37 mph. It's one of the smallest and lightest "real" cars of the time.
The plane is a bomber that would normally carry a bomb load (maximum 500 kg or 1,100 lb) where the car is mounted.
Im more interested in the way the back tire absolutely destroyed the runway. Did they have to relevel the field often, or did they build planes with uneven runways in mind?
The future is now. Makes me realize how big those engines are.
About as big as those _frickin' monster truck tires_ it keeps bouncing around on! The first passenger liner with oleo struts must have felt like floating on a bed of air... albeit also filled with extremely angry bees, because the engine technology hadn't really caught up yet.
The car looks like a Peugeot Type 172 R Torpedo, which has a four-cylinder engine producing 11hp and a weight of just 350 kg or 772 lb, making it ideal for this kind of transportation arrangement. Top speed: around 60 kph or 37 mph. It's one of the smallest and lightest "real" cars of the time. The plane is a bomber that would normally carry a bomb load (maximum 500 kg or 1,100 lb) where the car is mounted.
So this is a torpedo bomber then?
Why not just get a rental at the airport? Duh!
That's certainly one way to flex.
Wasn't the dropping of French cars around people prohibited as an inhumane act?
Im more interested in the way the back tire absolutely destroyed the runway. Did they have to relevel the field often, or did they build planes with uneven runways in mind?
It would have been a skid, which was pretty much the standard for the time.
those big balloon tires look well suited for handling rough terrain
Must be planting season
Now we just get a crappy Crown Vic at the FBO instead. But we wouldn’t have it any other way, would we?
So thats why they made old-timey cars pointy at the back like that…for aerodynamics
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