{"id":317,"date":"2006-08-25T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2006-08-24T14:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=317"},"modified":"2007-07-19T23:37:50","modified_gmt":"2007-07-19T13:37:50","slug":"steam-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"Steam aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder what ever became of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.airbornegrafix.com\/HistoricAircraft\/ThingsWings\/Besler.htm\">Besler steam powered aircraft<\/a> that reportedly flew in 1933?<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft used a 150 HP V-twin engine and a steam plant designed by Nathan Price, a former employee of the Doble motor company (of the car maker fame). I believe it was designed as a test-bed to prove a concept of a light but powerful steam plant with potential automotive applications.<\/p>\n<p>Presumably the aircraft itself was either scrapped during WW2 or perhaps it found its way into a collection somewhere. It would be nice to think this aircraft might have survived somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>It was first flown on 12 April 1933 &#8211; the aircraft being a Travel Air 2000 biplane. It was reportedly so quiet that at low altitude the pilot could exchange words with people on the ground.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image315\" alt=\"William Besler next to the steam plane\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/besler_ground1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image316\" alt=\"Besler steam aircraft in flight\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/besler_flight2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And there is some movie footage on YouTube &#8211; there is a segment after a demo of the Doble steam car, showing the aircraft taking off, flying and landing.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UPEv_M7p4fA\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UPEv_M7p4fA\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Cheers<br \/>\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder what ever became of the Besler steam powered aircraft that reportedly flew in 1933? The aircraft used a 150 HP V-twin engine and a steam plant designed by Nathan Price, a former employee of the Doble motor company (of the car maker fame). I believe it was designed as a test-bed to prove [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-steam","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}