Man puts plane engine in bike
Nine cylinders, zero silencers. We don’t do bikes on TG, but if we did…
There's no real logical reason for dressing all in black, or
straddling machines that have half the correct number of wheels. But
this little number proves that neither are a bad thing. It is a
motorbike, and it has an aircraft engine...Yep.This is the Red Baron - a chopper powered by a 150hp nine-cylinder Rotec Radial R3600 aircraft engine. Unbelievably, working out the fiendishly complex engineering involved in transferring drive to the rear of the engine, and building a custom chassis (not to mention painting, suspension, electronics.took its owner, Frank Ohle, just 18 months
Some of the video's in German, but wait till it fires up - we're sure you'll pick up the international language of POWERRRRRRRR.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hirsRnytTkU
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