Yards And Yarns

[bry3500]

[QUOTE=Carlo;9237]SAFE. Straights Air Freight Express, during the operational hours of their heyday a Bristol used to fly over Blenheim every 12-15 minutes. Father had a transport business in Blenheim at that time and sure carried a lot of goods that traveled by them.

The ground crew could unload and reload them in 12 minutes and they were usually refueled at the same time as they only ran minimum fuel loads so as to maximise the freight carrying capacity
I vividly still remember the day that one got caught up in a NorWester wind while approaching Woodbourne and was blown semi backwards across Blenheim until it crashed into the Wither Hills killing the crew.

There is a memorial at the Russley Golf Course in CHCH for one that crashed.
The Accident report reads " A sudden gust of wind registering 33 knots (61 kmh) was recorded at Harewood at 11.33am. At about this time the plane was seen by a number of witnesses on the ground to literally fall to pieces. The starboard outer wing folded upwards and backwards and then separated, falling and landing on open farmland. The nose doors, the floor of the freight compartment (with the freight in position), and the rear portion of the fuselage with the fin and rudder attached all separated from the rest of the aircraft just before impact.
Pieces were scattered over an area of more than a square mile (2.59 square kilometres).

Maybe that 'man of the cloth' was on to something Bob!

[AMCO72]

Dear old 'Yards and Yarns' seems to have slipped down the pecking order lately after being one of the most popular threads on the roaring season, so I thought I would get it back onto page 1 again with a question....a serious question to do with race cars. Not about building, racing, & restoring race cars but about keeping a race-car engine cool, or coolish....yes, seriously. Yards and Yarns seemed to me to be the most appropriate forum to make this enquiry on, as it may turn out to be a 'Yarn' so I dont want to pollute other threads with a whole lot of bullshit. QUESTION..... Has anyone out there heard of, but more importantly TRIED....waterless coolant....more specifically Evans or Liquid Intelligence 115 which is available in NZ....Evans is sold in Australia, and L.I. 115 could be the same stuff, but I dont know. There seems to be 2 camps here.......1....those who have used it and swear by it, and 2....those who HAVEN'T used it and rubbish it. I have spoken to a friend who runs an Historic Speedway Midget powered by a V8 60 with Edelbrock heads, etc producing about 220 hp, and this machine regularly has a coolant temperature over 250 degrees F, and oil temperatures over 300 degrees F with no problems. Previous to using LI 115 this engine would pump all its coolant out after a workout on the track, especially when stopped, and this has now ceased since using waterless coolant. Sounds amazing I agree, but my friend has no financial interest in the product so has no axe to grind and he is a very long standing member of the VCC and knows a thing or two about engines, especially V8's. We all know that in standard form the flat-head used to be like a tea-kettle due to Henry's odd design for getting exhaust gases out, so to keep one of these old girls from boiling their heads off is a victory indeed. The main ingredient in liquid intelligence 115 is a mixture of ethylene glycol and propylene glycol with some inhibitors in the mix. Now I know that manufacturers of antifreeze etc say that no more than 70% of the coolant should be glycol, and yet this stuff is used at 100%. Theoretically it's cooling SHOULD be inferior to water....which is the best conductor of heat away from metal, but which has an annoyingly low boiling point.....212 drgrees F. [I think God should have foreseen this when he made the world and everything therein, and had water boiling at 300 degrees F.!!!!!!!!!] I do know also that the great Jay Leno, a guy with a magnificent collection of cars in America also uses it, and endorses it. Now I know there are some bright, THINKING fellas out there who will give me a sensible and considered answer to my question. I await the response with interest.

[Oldfart]

The question I had was "what is a good temperature for an engine to run at?
There seem to be a lot of advantages, ie no pressure which is only there to raise the boiling point and no water to create rust.
Everybody I have met who has used the stuff (liquid Intelligence) swears by it, seems only the non users are sceptical. There are heaps of the Whangamat cruisers using it now.
I have yet to convert BTW