{"id":200,"date":"2013-03-29T10:30:51","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T10:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dave0.nfshost.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2013\/03\/29\/steam-powered-aeroplane-footage\/"},"modified":"2013-03-29T10:30:51","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T10:30:51","slug":"steam-powered-aeroplane-footage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2013\/03\/steam-powered-aeroplane-footage\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam-Powered Aeroplane Footage!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=JE1MtzNKxYYC&#038;lpg=PA251&#038;vq=%22flash%20boiler%22&#038;pg=PA251\">page 251<\/a> of <I>Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred<\/i> I make brief mention of flash boilers used in steam-powered airplanes, basically just to poo-poo them as dangerously whack&#8211;which, as it turns out, was pretty closed-minded of me.  Here&#8217;s one in action:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nw6NFmcnW-8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nI don&#8217;t usually advise clicking through to the pit of vitriol and distraction that is YouTube, but <a title=\"The Besler Steam Plane - YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nw6NFmcnW-8&#038;feature=youtu.be\">the original poster&#8217;s comments are pretty informative<\/a>.  A snippet:<\/p>\n<div id=blkq>\nA Travel Air 2000 biplane made the world&#8217;s first piloted flight under steam power over Oakland, California, on 12 April 1933.<br \/>\nThe strangest feature of the flight was its relative silence; spectators on the ground could hear the pilot when he called to them from mid-air.\n<\/div>\n<p>It goes on with some neat technical details; as it turns out, the flash-boiler design Besler used was arguably an optimal solution at the time for small planes like his.  There&#8217;s a pretty fascinating contemporary article on Besler&#8217;s steam-powered flight in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flyingkettle.com\/besler6.htm\">June 1934 issue of <I>Steam Car Developments and Steam Aviation<\/i><\/a>.  Besler&#8217;s steam engine was reversible at the flip of a switch, making it possible to slow the plane after landing without risk of doing an endo and flipping the bird.  I.e., In a slightly different timeline, steam-powered planes would have been a perfect fit for aircraft carriers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On page 251 of Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred I make brief mention of flash boilers used in steam-powered airplanes, basically just to poo-poo them as dangerously whack&#8211;which, as it turns out, was pretty closed-minded of me. Here&#8217;s one in action: I don&#8217;t usually advise clicking through to the pit of vitriol and distraction that is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2013\/03\/steam-powered-aeroplane-footage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Steam-Powered Aeroplane Footage!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}