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Ford Flathead Puzzler- Aero Style

To: clemtebow@jps.net, jamisone@iowaone.net, land-speed@autox.team.net,
Subject: Ford Flathead Puzzler- Aero Style
From: ardunbill@webtv.net
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 18:47:04 -0400 (EDT)
Hi Folks, just ran into an interesting tidbit for Ford Flathead fans in
a 1935 aircraft engineering textbook.

In an appendix listing commercially available aero engines appears the
following item:

Ford V8 (W), rated 92 bhp @ 3900 rpm, weight 419 lbs.

Might this be a variant of our good old Flathead (21 stud early type)
produced for aero use?  The weight of 419 lbs contrasts with the 575 lbs
previously reported for the car-type Flathead.  Big difference.
All-aluminum? 

That's all the info there was, and it ain't much.  Anybody out there
know anything more in depth about this??   Cheers Bill

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