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tauruck
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Leopold F. Schmid.
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December 22, 2016, 12:22:24 PM »
I'm sure you guys have heard of or seen stuff covering
Leopold and his designs. I was reading an old Road and Track
magazine dated June 2005 and found the short story.
I googled and found the link below.
https://simanaitissays.com/2014/06/07/schmids-lsr/
If this has been posted before I apologize.
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December 22, 2016, 01:24:56 PM »
I have to smile about this article....Leopold Schmid was the Chief Engineer of Porsche to that time....
Also the author wrote only about the 1960 version....the final 1963 version was a little bit different....see the attached picture from a 1:43 scale model I scratched built using the original blue prints...
maybe the only existing model in this scale
Interesting that this car had no steering....the idea was to brake the wheels on one side of the racer to change the direction...if this had really worked
the racer was in built in Italy when the English (sportsman's fair play) said No to the sale of the engine to the Schmid project.....
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tauruck
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December 23, 2016, 02:52:08 AM »
If he could have found a motor from a ME 262 he would have been smiling.
I did a lot of reading and IMO the guy was awesome and way ahead of his time.
Thanks for the cool photo Porkpie.
Have a great Christmas.
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December 23, 2016, 09:08:43 AM »
I believe Breedlove`s first jet-car used rear wheel braking as steering also...That changed quickly
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December 23, 2016, 09:15:19 AM »
Interesting link Mike...Oddly, When I was just wee little floydjer..I used to mount model rocket engines in my model cars...and one of them used the pin-wheel set-up. Didn`t work worth a hoot.
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December 23, 2016, 10:37:21 AM »
I think we all did crazy stuff when we were kids.
What normal person gets into LSR?
My rockets never worked a hoot either. Power to weight ratio!!!.
Good bombs though.
Solid gunpowder inside of a 2" ID
cardboard tube that was 2' long was never going to work.
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December 23, 2016, 10:44:15 AM »
Craig Breedlove tried to steer the SoA Threewheeler in his first configuration with the "rudder" in front of the front wheel...didn't work out....so they changed the front wheel into a steerable wheel...wasn't still not easy, but good enough to set three records and making a bath in a salt pond....
Doing crazy things....well....a friend of mine and I put a Daniel Tube on a go cart chassis with RC control...and it worked very well.....too well.....
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