{"id":319,"date":"2006-08-26T00:08:31","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T14:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=319"},"modified":"2009-01-20T06:51:01","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T20:51:01","slug":"steam-aircraft-the-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=319","title":{"rendered":"Steam aircraft &#8211; the sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well the plane may be long gone, but it appears that the Besler aircraft engine has survived, and may be seen either at the Warner Robins Air Force Museum in Warner Robins, Georgia USA, or at the Savannah Science Museum (from where it was loaned). This came from the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tinypower.com\/airplane.htm\">Tiny Power website &#8211; makers of model and marine steam engines<\/a>. Tiny Power has now started making scale model replicas of the aircraft engine. Their site has versions of the following two photos. (I&#8217;ve tinkered to make them more legible). According to the museum sign, the engine is a three cylinder single-acting radial design, putting out 70HP at 300PSI steam pressure. Bore and stroke: 3.125&#8243; x 4.125&#8243;, displacing 165.38 inches and the whole unit weighed 100lb including pumps and propellor.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image318\" alt=\"besler steam aircraft engine\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/steamairengine.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here is the engine itself&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Besler steam aircraft engine\" id=\"image320\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/steamairengine1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is a picture of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aerofiles.com\/PP-doble-besler.jpg\"><strong>the original twin cylinder engine here<\/strong><\/a> at www.aerofiles.com<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<br \/>\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well the plane may be long gone, but it appears that the Besler aircraft engine has survived, and may be seen either at the Warner Robins Air Force Museum in Warner Robins, Georgia USA, or at the Savannah Science Museum (from where it was loaned). This came from the Tiny Power website &#8211; makers of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-journal","category-steam","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319"}],"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=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}