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Saddam's space rockets
Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 9:56 pm
by Georg Weinstabl
What will come now is insane and absolutely ... silly! Curious?
Re: Saddam's space rockets
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 10:11 pm
by 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...
Re: Saddam's space jets
Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 10:03 am
by Georg Weinstabl
The old space rocket ...
- Wrong machining urged me to change design
- Wings reshaped.JPG (21.89 KiB) Viewed 27304 times
had to be changed to a space jet
- New space jets with air inlet
- Space Jets.JPG (43.47 KiB) Viewed 27304 times
Re: Saddam's space rockets
Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 7:27 am
by Volga70
Wooowheee!! Wild!!
Alekseev would have been proud!
Re: Saddam's space rockets
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 1:21 am
by 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.
- Mounted Plasma Jets. (Saddam's space rockets).JPG (45.15 KiB) Viewed 26963 times
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.
Re: Saddam's space rockets
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 9:24 am
by 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
Re: Saddam's space rockets
Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 5:39 pm
by Georg Weinstabl
Premachined rockets
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