Regarding today's brief

Frank Hicks · **Posted:** Mon Jul 30, 2001 10:52 am

Sorry for nitpicking, but I'm wondering if I missed something in the second section of today's brief, entitled "SteamJet offers Mach 6 Capability." Exactly what does this have to do with railway preservation? Try as I might, I can't find any connection at all between this mildly interesting story and railway museums. Hume - help!

Erik Ledbetter · **Posted:** Mon Jul 30, 2001 11:17 am

Exactly what
> does this have to do with railway
> preservation? Try as I might, I can't find
> any connection at all between this mildly
> interesting story and railway museums. Hume
> - help!

Errr, nothing. I have a feeling it was the next story down on the newswire from which we cribbed the prior brief and somehow it got included. We'll get it pulled later today. Apologies!

Erik Ledbetter
Associate Editor
RyPN

eledbetter@mail.rypn.org

Gary Mills · **Posted:** Mon Jul 30, 2001 11:44 am

Don't pull the "Steamjet" story! I laughed so hard
I almost cried...I kept waiting for the part where
the scientists convert an old locomotive and
achieve mach 1.

GMill@earthlink.net

Hume Kading · **Posted:** Mon Jul 30, 2001 11:51 am

My gratitude to my erstwhile colleagues' attempts to cover my ineptitude, but, the stories came from two discrete separate sources, and I posted it intentionally.

I find it somewhat interesting and ironic that superheated expanding H2O may be what propels us up the next evolutionary step on the airbreathing propulsion latter.

It's not the first time we have diverged from pure railway oriented subjects.

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Phil Mulligan · **Posted:** Mon Jul 30, 2001 1:01 pm

> Don't pull the "Steamjet" story! I
> laughed so hard
> I almost cried...I kept waiting for the part
> where
> the scientists convert an old locomotive and
> achieve mach 1.
Actually, reciprocating airplane engines used water injection to achieve short term power for takeoff or to get out of trouble.

Electric City Trolley Museum Associa

Dave · **Posted:** Mon Jul 30, 2001 2:21 pm

I think the Case Tractor boiler explosion story answers the question about steam power providing power to achieve flight velocity very nicely. It seems from the picturs to have been successfully launched. The Mach one tie in may have been unintentional, but was timely.

Dave

irondave@bellsouth.net

Aarne H. Frobom · **Posted:** Mon Jul 30, 2001 2:43 pm

> . . . Reciprocating airplane engines
> used water injection to achieve short term
> power for takeoff or to get out of trouble.

And, so did turbosupercharged Corvairs and Oldsmobiles of the early 1960's, although for charge cooling, not for water's expansive properties.

Aarne H. Frobom,
who put many miles on a Corvair to see NKP 759, CN 6060, and other early-seventies steam events, detonating all the way.

froboma@mdot.state.mi.us

Dennis Hogan · **Posted:** Mon Jul 30, 2001 9:39 pm

I suspected as much, coming from Hume!
"Steam" anything catches his interest.
Tea time, Hume?

> Sorry for nitpicking, but I'm wondering if I
> missed something in the second section of
> today's brief, entitled "SteamJet
> offers Mach 6 Capability." Exactly what
> does this have to do with railway
> preservation? Try as I might, I can't find
> any connection at all between this mildly
> interesting story and railway museums. Hume
> - help!

denmeg_hogan@msn.com

Hume Kading · **Posted:** Tue Jul 31, 2001 12:17 am

....the airbreathing propulsion latter.

Uh, that's ladder.

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