Car engine Plane pics?

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They used to put VW and Corvair engines in light planes all the time. Ultra lights use snowmobile engines a lot.

Don't have any pictures though.

 

There is a guy with a hangar nearly across from mine that builds 3/4 size p51s with aluminum big block Chevy motors in them. I will be down next week and see what I can get for pics. They are pricey as hell and gorgeous.
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lot's of different car and motorcyle engines have been used , but i think the Pietenpol with a model A ford engine may have been one of the first . plans where first available in 1929 and are still available

 

Anyone care to do the math and tell me how dumb this was? The Bugatti airplane was at a shop I worked in back in the 1970's. We stripped all the original fabric off the wings and fusalage, and stuffed it in a dumpster! All I kept was a one inch square postage stamp piece. Got to meet the designer Louis De Moge (sp) he had to be in his late 80's, both engines are now powering Bugatti Type 59's.

 

1937 Arrow sport model F with Ford flathead engine.

 

My uncle designed and built a plane called the Skybus with a V8 Chevy and a Holley carb. I thought the carb was sorta strange.

 

A shop down the road a bit used to make kits to use Subaru engines in airplanes..

 

How about cars with plane engines?

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=84804

 

Home builders have been using Volkswagen engines for years.

 

The aircraft is wooden framed and formed and then covered with doped linen fabric. It is not metal.

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there is a guy who stuck a model t engine in a plane a while ago...never thought it would fly but i was wrong...

 

WOOD! That was the big deal about it, it was a honeycomb reenforced wing, a one piece deal once ***embled, we used to store it wing section and fusalage hanging from the celing. The fusalage was like a big canoe with a top section that was removable. Each engine had a driveshaft that ran along side the pilot and met at a junction box to drive the counter rotating props. I think I have a model of the wing cross section here somewere. Bugatti built the engines but the woodwork was done in a piano factory outside Paris I believe. The wing to fusalage fairing was aluminum and was one of the first planes to have that nice flaired in feature. Setting the Air Speed Record was the reason they built it. WWII put an end to it and it was hidden all through the war. The dryrot killed any chance of it ever flying after the war, that and the engines going off to "restorations".

 

Too bad. It's fast looking, very modern for it's time. It'd been nice if it had flown just once.

 

Check out the air intakes in the V tail leading edge!

 

37Kid, don't know if you are aware of it but the aircraft (minus engines) currently resides in the EAA Museum (of which I am a member ) in Oshkosh Wis. Nice to know that you are a part of history.

http://www.airventuremuseum.org/collection/aircraft/Bugatti%20Model%20100%20Racer.asp#TopOfPage

 

No, I'm not part of history personally. I've been real lucky to work on some real neat projects, cars, planes, and houses that are part of history. I hope to get out to Oshkosh some day, I did get my first B-17 flight on there "Aluminum Overcast". Really enjoyed that, the B-17's that survived from the unit my Dad was in landed at Bradley in 1945, and were then flown to Kingman, Az. to be s****ped.

 

Here's a Bugatti racer link.I was the restoration spe******t at E.A.A.***igned to the restoration and preservation of the airplane.What arrived in two trailers became my daily project for nearly a year. The racer is now on display in the museum. Small world, eh? (Bruce) a.k.a. Stratocaster.








http://bugattipage.tripod.com/wright.htm

 

Thanks for the link Bruce! Your restoration looks great, and it is in a proper home now. That one inch square of original Bugatti fabric I mentioned in an earlier post is the only part of the plane that was ever airborne. It was in my wallet when I went up in your B-17. What do you have out there with 1920's Henderson 4 Motorcycle power? That has to have been a very popular homebuilt power plant.

 

Here's an example of high flying Ford power.

 

Looks like a crop duster to me Henry. Can you post some details on it, is that a common powerplant for them?

 

The Funk was a monoplane. Yes it did have a Model A engine, inverted.

 

FlyCorvair.com

 

I worked at a speedshop an had a guy come in wanting a magneto for a sbc. When I began asking him the usual "qualifying" questions I soon came to the realization this was no race motor he was building. We came to a mutual dont ask-dont tell agreement for liability reasons. But I eventually found out he was building a sbc powered HELICOPTER!!!

G.M.B.

 

Ah I remember those Air Tractors, Looks like a good replacement for the R-985.

Dawg