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Title: One Second In The Life Of A Merlin
Post by: AG-51_Razor on April 25, 2013, 02:13:58 PM

'A Second In The Life Of A Merlin' by Tom Fey.

The Unlimiteds go flashing through the racecourse, engines howling, air shearing, heat waves streaming. Four hundred and eighty miles an hour is 8 miles a minute, and the elite racers take about 70 seconds to cover the 9.1 mile Reno course. If you could take a souped P-51 racer flying the circuit at Reno, slow time down, and examine just one second, what would you find?

In that one second, the V-12 Rolls-Royce Merlin engine would have gone through 60 revolutions, with each of the 48 valves slamming open and closed 30 times. The twenty-four spark plugs have fired 720 times. Each piston has traveled a total of 60 feet in linear distance at an average speed of 41 miles per hour, with the direction of movement reversing 180

Title: Re: One Second In The Life Of A Merlin
Post by: AG-51_Glider on April 25, 2013, 05:49:32 PM

F#@king A Bubba!!

Title: Re: One Second In The Life Of A Merlin
Post by: AG-51_Hawg on April 26, 2013, 06:50:31 AM

What Glider said.

Title: Re: One Second In The Life Of A Merlin
Post by: AG-51_Fireball on April 26, 2013, 10:42:26 AM

Amazing! Internal combustion engines and computer circuitry...technologies that are hard to wrap your head around. :dontknow:

Title: Re: One Second In The Life Of A Merlin
Post by: AG-51_Bulldog on April 26, 2013, 08:38:51 PM

Raw Power.... Got to love it...

Title: Re: One Second In The Life Of A Merlin
Post by: VT-51_Snooch on April 29, 2013, 08:14:10 PM

What Hawg said about what Glider said....