Ferrari Mailing List: Re: i'm back!

[LarryT (l02turner]

This link is a month old or so - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Dr2ZB36p9Y  it's a link to youtube "fly bys" so a new search may yield more videos.  SOme incredible stuff here -

 

Speaking of the SR-71 on AB at 100' - I'll have to find it but I read a article by a former SR pilot who was asked "what's the *slowest* you ever flew the 71?" it was the opposite of the question he was used to and after some thought told the story of being asked to do a flyby over a unused airport for a group of kids interested in flying - he was intent on finding the airport and let his airspeed drop dangerously low - when he saw *how* low he hit full AB and really put on a show !  They were suitably impressed.

 

LarryT

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From: Robert W. Garven Jr.

Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 10:45 PM

To: Larry Turner

Cc: The FerrariList

Subject: Re: [Ferrari] i'm back!

I once saw a sr71 with after burners doing a 100foot fly by at a Point Mugu Airshow.  I wish I had my digital camera.................

Robert W. Garven Jr.

rgarven [at] gmail.com

 "The Ferrari is a dream - people dream of owning this special vehicle and for most people it will remain a dream apart from for those lucky few". Enzo Ferrari

On May 19, 2010, at 8:32 AM, Mike Fleischer wrote:

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

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