Saddam's space rockets

[Georg Weinstabl]

What will come now is insane and absolutely ... silly! Curious?

[Georg Weinstabl]

Imagine, every engine has a rev counter. There are typical mechanic ones, that are driven via a push pull cable or there are electrical ones, that are either having a magnetic pick-up from flywheel or via mechanical drive. There is however also the possibility to pick-up the rpm from the electronic ignition of the engine. I take the magnetic pick-up, that gives a signal via a cable to the tachometer.

Instead of only using this cable output, I will also have another output, that leads to a chip. The chip converts the signal and gives an output to a chain of LED lights positioned in a circle. The iddle engine running will slowly effect the LED lights running in the circle like our christmas lights. (Merry Christmas). The more you rev-up the engine the faster will run the light in the circle.

The LED lights will be positioned in a rocket or jet shaped plexiglas at the rear of the wing. The wing is shaped like the old Volga wing with some small changes and there will be a mounted rocket or jet on each side.

The jet thruster shape was so unfamiliar to the workshop to produce it, that they of corse questioned the use of it. I had to explain them that we are working on secret weapon. Soon the whole project got the name of ''Saddam's Space Rockets''. Due to the fact, that the workshop machined-down the aluminium mill for one part too much we had to change the rockets into jets.

Drawings and photos will follow...

[Georg Weinstabl]

The old space rocket ...

Wrong machining urged me to change design

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had to be changed to a space jet

New space jets with air inlet

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[Volga70]

Wooowheee!! Wild!!

Alekseev would have been proud!

[Georg Weinstabl]

Yessss, it's true!!! The probably most silly invention mankind has outthought is going into production! This is done solely due to my admiration to Harley Earl & 2. Virgil Exner. Both were the designers of cars in the 50ties and 60ties, which added jet/spaceage designs in the cars they designed. The cars had wings/fins, jets rockets planes and anything else that was never seen before or after in the automotive industry.

The winged from the Volga was changed.

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Large air intakes guarantees a fierce function of these jets, I suppose?
Maybe I can also add some space sounds to it? Does anybody has a suggestion for this?

Machining of the jet bullet on the lath.

The intakes have been machined out of a aluminium hollow shaft. I will try to add a plastic computer fan and a small ilumination to imitate some kind of jet function inside the housing. With all scrap consisting of a mounted aluminium housing, lights, electronics and movements I am more-or-less sure to find some victims I can tell stories about a miraculous russian invention of a Plasma-Jet-Propulsion of the 1960ties which was tried onboard this boat.

[Georg Weinstabl]

Front parts of the jet-rockets have been welded and are ready for the lath.

The front part with the inlet wings below

[Georg Weinstabl]

Premachined rockets

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