We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/so_whattaya_do.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:29:32 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Yer rich, your businesses are doing well, you aren't yet a hermit living in a hotel in Las Vegas and there's all this war surplus laying around - what's a feller to do? Simple enough. You go all "Junkyard Wars" and build a heavy lift helo from spare parts laying around. The Hughes XH-17. Your front wheels came from a B-25 Mitchell and the rear wheels from a C-54 Skymaster. The fuel tank is a bomb bay-mounted unit from a B-29 Superfortress. You get a cockpit from a Waco CG-15 and the tail rotor from a Sikorsky H-19. You set... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/so_whattaya_do.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/so_whattaya_do.html Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:16:38 -0600 the LeClerc running the Hyperbar engine. And at the Tank Show. Cheers]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/so_whattaya_do.html#comment-74112 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/so_whattaya_do.html#comment-74112 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:44:53 -0600 Reminds me of the Navy's silliness with pressure-fired boilers. It did eventually dawn on them that they could eliminate the boiling-water part of the cycle and just have the hot gases spin the shaft. I do wonder what a turbo-compound Diesel, as used in the Draka tanks, would sound like. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/so_whattaya_do.html#comment-74098 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/so_whattaya_do.html#comment-74098 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:55:28 -0600 So, Bill - how'd it fly? Lemme get the hangar spinning at 88rpm and I'll let you know...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/so_whattaya_do.html#comment-74083 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/so_whattaya_do.html#comment-74083 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:59:23 -0600