Tail Props / 3-Wheel Car (Feb, 1946)
That tail prop plane looks a lot like a Predator Drone.
Tail Props, counter-rotating, powered through a 60′ shaft by two Allison 1630 hp engines, drive the speedy new 48-passenger Douglas DC-8 transport.
3-Wheel Car powered by an aircraft engine, will do 100 mph and 40 miles to a gallon. In production now on West Coast, it will be on sale in 3 months.
That airliner concept was a proposed derivative of the Douglas XB-42 “Mixmaster” bomber prototype which actually was built and flew:
http://en.wikipedia.org…
A DC 8 model in 1946! wow.
I don’t suppose that car ever actually made it to market.
I wonder how well that three-wheeled car corners at 100mph.
Ah, found an article on the DC-8 concept:
http://www.dc8.org/libr…
I wonder if the “small model” mentioned at the end of that article is the one depicted in this article…
Centerline thrust. Thanks for the great links.
You’re welcome, Torgo. Though let’s not mention the Piper Jet, oK?
Anyone knows what’s the name of this three-wheeled car?
Could it be a Davis?
http://www.suarezweb.co…
Harry, you’ve got it. From the same website http://www.suarezweb.co…
Fascinating story on the Davis website. Although less than 20 were built looks like it “made it to market” after all.