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| Yep, that's what 0.0005 horsepower looks like |
Thursday, 2 December 2010
Sopwith Dolphin Retrospective No. 9 - Fuselage nearly finished
Now that I had got the engine in at last, I could add some final detail:
Wednesday, 1 December 2010
Sopwith Dolphin Retrospective No. 7 - The Engine
The engine for a Dolphin I was a geared Hispano Suiza; which I'm hoping looked very much like this:
The original generated 200hp, apparently, and I remarked to someone, in a jocular manner, that my 1/72nd scale replica would therefore develop 2.8hp. But this can't be right, can it? A model 3 inches long having the power of almost 3 horses at its disposal? That would be simply crazy.
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