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[Looking4new]

You guys forget the infamous "Purple Nurple" from when you were a kid? You could give them to some guy you didn't particularly like and nothing would be said about it but give one, just one, to some girl and you never heard the end of it!

Why would you want to give a purple nurple to a girl anyway. They have such nice boobies and nips. Too nice to be pinching and twisting.

 

[turnkey4099]

Were the hit & miss engies also called "Donkey Engines??

We had a cement mixer with a hit & miss. I had the "Privilege" of mixing the cement. I also got to drive the 1 wheel dump truck.
Way more fun than I really wanted.

Where does the saying "Balls Out" come from??

Is anyone even going to guess on the other type of ignition & the MC brand???

Balls out - running wide open. Fly ball (I think that is he term) governors would have the balls all the way out from the spindle at full bore.

Harry k

 

[vtsnowedin]

Balls out - running wide open. Fly ball (I think that is he term) governors would have the balls all the way out from the spindle at full bore.

Harry k

That sounds right. I remember a movie where Tom Edison had to install that type of governors on the first generators used to light up New York city.

 

[ESBkevin]

Was it the Liberator B24?.. it seems they had a special high powered searchlight, called the "something" Lamp.. I cannot remember the name. Anyway, they made life tougher for the kreigsmarine. The end of the "happy time" for them.

Just stumbled onto this thread.

The aircraft light was the Leigh light
Leigh light - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Short sunderland flying boat and the Consolidated B24 Liberator were the two aircraft primarily entrusted to use them although the Catalina and the Wellington bomber also did service in the early years.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

There was an aircraft that was used by both the U.S. and Canada as submarine hunters in WWII. It was dubbed the "Bolo". What was it's military designation, who built it and upon what civilian prototype was it based?

 

[crash325]

There was an aircraft that was used by both the U.S. and Canada as submarine hunters in WWII. It was dubbed the "Bolo". What was it's military designation, who built it and upon what civilian prototype was it based?

I had to cheat, but I did find it. Will let someone else see if they can come up with it.

New question.
Was there ever a Supersonic Seaplane??

 

[Heywood Jannockitov]

Convair F2Y Sea Dart

 

[Heywood Jannockitov]

I don't think anyone answered your question as to what 50's automobile was offered with a factory supercharged engine. The earliest one that I can think of is Kaiser, around 1951. They needed to compete with the big three and didn't have the resources to develop an OHV V8 of their own, so a McCulloch supercharger was added to K-F's "hoary" inline-6 Continental Red Seal engine in order to boost performance.

 

[turnkey4099]

I don't think anyone answered your question as to what 50's automobile was offered with a factory supercharged engine. The earliest one that I can think of is Kaiser, around 1951. They needed to compete with the big three and didn't have the resources to develop an OHV V8 of their own, so a McCulloch supercharger was added to K-F's "hoary" inline-6 Continental Red Seal engine in order to boost performance.

The answer was the Corvair Monza. Turbo charged. I made the same mistake thinking the question was referring to the real McCoy blower supercharger.

Harry K

 

[crash325]

In the 50's a Navy plane took off in Australia and flew to the USA non stop & un-refueled.
What was it????