You've got it all wrong! The civet does the passing.

I never understood why people want to drink civet shit tea.

Pro-tip, the coffee grinder is surprisingly muffled just by setting it on two potholders. Even more if you put one over the top as well.

Or you can pre-grind.

Have you priced an F-1 engine lately? Compare two of those to the 65K they spent on the entire build. Lateral Gs are not the same as upside down.

The originals were custom designed by Bugatti. He may have kept a few things from the racing engines he also designed, but this was clearly a new engine meant for the plane.

BTW, the 2JZ-GTE with TWO turbochargers maxes out at 321HP (so 120HP short). Do you have a plan to make one of them run backwards? Any idea how to get 500HP out of one without blowing the head off? Care to bet your life on it? (note that blowing an engine in an airplane is much worse than in a car)

Do you have any idea what you're talking about?

And if they had gone with the most powerful available boxer, it would still be significantly under-powered compared to the original. Remember, the engines in the original engines were designed by Bugatti.

Since they weren't going to match the original power anyway, they chose inexpensive.

I love my Jura Capresso... I put beans in, and get awesome coffee out. Making expensive freeze-dried instant coffee will never compare.

The engines in the 100P were most certainly not car engines. They were custom designs. Put one of those in a car of the era and it would twist the drive train right out of the car.

There are modified car engines in use for hobby aviation, but the 100P was a racing plane going for record performance. None of those modified hobby aviation engines would have done any better than the engines they went with.

How many of those are light enough and produce 450HP?

In other words, design a new engine?

You were talking about automotive engines in the 450 HP or better range. They do not make aviation engines in that power range anymore. Cesnas are powered by engines in the 200-250 HP range.

So, I'll say again, they don't make those engines anymore. That is, engines that are light weight, designed for (or adaptable to) aviation AND produce around 450HP.

Neither of those well respected old aviation engines you mentioned would fit into the 100P which used 2 smaller engines installed in-line with seperate drives to seperate props.

You certainly can build such an engine, but one-offs (or two-offs I suppose) are pricey.

I suspect Bugatti was more concerned about individual innovations being adapted by the Nazis rather than the plane as a whole.

But yeah, anything like that would have been too late for the Battle of Britain.

Only if you can't tell the difference between appeasement and active assistance. The former was foolish enough to deserve it's poor reputation today, but the latter was active evil.

Not claiming Kennedy was a great guy or anything, just that he didn't collaborate with the enemy.

The problem is that they needed an aviation engine. They CAN be made but they aren't made anymore.

It would be possible to re-create the engines in the original, but would have well more than doubled the cost of the build.

The original engines were also composed of many magnesium parts to keep them light weight. Meanwhile, automotive engines may be fine for a basic airplane, but I'm not so sure how they would work out on a plane like this. For example, how well would an automotive engine deal with being upside down for a while?

A Bachelors of Arts in anything scientific generally implies that you're not going to get enough exposure to anything you'll actually be doing, much less an associates. So sure, if you want to develop a program that teaches things they could pick up for $20 out of a book and make your college thousands, then 'Associates of Applied Science' sounds perfect.

If only I had mod points!

It may be common to complain about the defense attorney getting someone off on a 'technicality' and such, but that's not really what is happening here.

First, civil rights are not at all a 'technicality'. Getting a warrant is far from a technicality.

Put simply, a rapist is going to be back on the streets because the police screwed the pooch, hard. Apparently, they've made it a habit. They should be ashamed of themselves.