Saturday, March 27, 2010

Weekend Steam



Here is an unusual place to find a steam engine. Luckily for us, the Besler steam airplane was actually filmed being demonstrated in 1933, and now the old newsreel clips can be found on YouTube. Amazing pictures!

UPDATE: Go HERE to read two fascinating articles about the Besler airplane.

2 comments:

Mr. Completely said...

What a cool video! Steam aircraft engines.

Mr. C.

David aka True Blue Sam said...

A couple of good articles about this airplane are on this page: http://www.rexresearch.com/besler/beslerst.htm The engine is a double acting, V, Cross-Compound, weighing 180 pounds, and delivering 150 HP. The boiler is an oil fired flash system.