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greener · Post by **greener** » Wed Aug 25, 2010 10:52 am

And literally held together with glue and bailing wire. A plane for a real manly man.

ruger22 · Post by **ruger22** » Wed Aug 25, 2010 10:55 am

Sopwith Camel had same design, I think made the plane twist to the left. Pilots said it turned so quick that "both eyes were on the same side of your head".

bearandoldman · Post by **bearandoldman** » Wed Aug 25, 2010 11:53 am

greener wrote:And literally held together with glue and bailing wire. A plane for a real manly man.

Just need a leather jacket and a leather helmet with a Red streaming tassel on the top anf a white silk scarf, flung over your shoulder.

bearandoldman · Post by **bearandoldman** » Wed Aug 25, 2010 11:55 am

ruger22 wrote:Sopwith Camel had same design, I think made the plane twist to the left. Pilots said it turned so quick that "both eyes were on the same side of your head".

Thart I could believe, a rapid application of rhrorrle must have made a need for a lot of alerion correction to maintain a level attitude..

bgreenea3 · Post by **bgreenea3** » Wed Aug 25, 2010 6:58 pm

Every thing from that era was more more difficult to operate....would you want to have to adjust the spark advance, feul mixture choke, throttle, and drive todays cars like they did on the old modle a's and t's?

bearandoldman · Post by **bearandoldman** » Wed Aug 25, 2010 7:10 pm

bgreenea3 wrote:Every thing from that era was more more difficult to operate....would you want to have to adjust the spark advance, fuel mixture choke, throttle, and drive today's cars like they did on the old model a's and t's?

I rode Harleys that had the spark advance on the left had grip, a hand shift on the left side of the tank and a foot operated clutch. There were very few cars when I started to drive that had anything other than a manual shift ans they just got on the steering column./ My grandfather had one of the first automatic transmission cars in town, a brand new 1947 Oldsmobile with a Hydramatic and I think on the Olds and The Caddie had them , not sure if Buick had the Dynaflow in that year or not.

ruger22 · Post by **ruger22** » Thu Aug 26, 2010 11:24 am

I got to try to drive a Model T and a Model A once each in my life.

With the T the throttle and spark are both on the steering wheel. Three pedals to select the gears, and what looks like a handbrake is the clutch. Once around a big parking lot was an accomplishment. Only saving case is the planetary transmission used bands inside like an modern automatic, so you don't need synchronized gears. Took three arms to steer.

The Model A wasn't as bad, more like a modern car except for needing synchronizers it didn't have. I got a slight crunch or two shifting.