Ferrari Mailing List: Re: i'm back!

[Mike Fleischer (themightytoe]

BR,

Many many times, I always love watching air shows...  My favorite is 
still Farnborough in 1986 or 7 (don't recall which year, we went both 
times), The major players there were trying to sell their weapons 
platforms.  Watching the French Mirages, American F-16'sone upping each 
other throughout the show was fantastic.  They flew an early Eurofighter 
that clearly was not fully trimmed out as it did not roll around its 
central axis, and they flew the SR-71 towards the end of the show, which 
I have never seen since, but wow was that cool.

That said, I love a high speed pass with that whistle preceding the 
boom. The F-15 does it best, but you MUST have the boom...  otherwise 
its just a whistle with no payoff.

Certainly having all your torque at 0 RPM is amazing, and having played 
with RC cars for many years, its about time someone made a full size 
version :)  All it will take is an incremental improvement in battery 
technology to push these into the mainstream, but I would not trade it 
for the WOT scream of a V-8, 10 or 12 on any given sunny afternoon :).

BR,
Mike

Britt2Asa [at] aol.com wrote:
> I thought I would feel that way to but trust me you need to try it.You 
> ever been to an airshow an watched a jet fighter flying at you? You 
> hear this faint whistling noise as it gets closer and closer (you can 
> see its going really fast but it is spookily quiet) and then BOOM! Its 
> kind of like that with out the boom... 
>  
> BR in the UK
> 1986 328GTS (LHD 89,940km) Died August 19, 2006 Shrewsbury UK
> 1980 400i (RHD 74,000 miles)
> Searching for the right 512TR
> 1985 Bertone X1/9
> 2003 BMW 530d
> 1991 Alfa Spider S4 LHD
> 1993 Alfa Spider S4 LHD
> 2010 BMW 320d
>  
> In a message dated 18/05/2010 15:14:38 GMT Daylight Time, 
> themightytoe [at] gmail.com writes:
>
>     I put the loudest, most obnoxious exhaust I could on the Vette, this
>     side of straight pipes...  So a car that zooms with no noise doesn't
>     appeal too much, not matter how quick it is.
>
>     Now if it made that Tie Fighter sound instead of Luke's Land Speeder,
>     that would be excellent :)
>
>     Britt2Asa [at] aol.com wrote:
>     > Well yes in a way but I was to busy trying to breath as the
>     > performance sends the blood rushing around your head in a dizzying
>     > fashion! I work with electric vehicles every day however the
>     Tesla is
>     > really a new breed and if you get a chance to get in one do it! It
>     > makes what we call in the industry (The Luke Skywalker landspeeder
>     > noise) so it isn't completely silent but it is so quiet it seems
>     even
>     > faster than it is (if that makes sense). You mostly here the tyres
>     > scrabbling for grip, small stones being thrown up and then you just
>     > zoom off.
>     > 
>     > All a bit of fun! However if it was my money I would by a 328
>     GTS or
>     > even a Mondial. New Evora is a good car as well. Bet we see an
>     > electric version of that from Lotus once Tesla quits making the
>     sports
>     > car next year and switches to the saloon.....
>     > 
>     > BR in the UK
>     > 1986 328GTS (LHD 89,940km) Died August 19, 2006 Shrewsbury UK
>     > 1980 400i (RHD 74,000 miles)
>     > Searching for the right 512TR
>     > 1985 Bertone X1/9
>     > 2003 BMW 530d
>     > 1991 Alfa Spider S4 LHD
>     > 1993 Alfa Spider S4 LHD
>     > 2010 BMW 320d