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8 March 2016 at 09:53 #34311
Neil Wyatt
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Electric speedboat scale model.
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8 March 2016 at 09:53 #228948
Neil Wyatt
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Miss Britain III was a speedboat designed by Hubert Scott Paine and built by his company British Power Boats. Inspired by the success of the Supermarine S6B in the 1931 Schneider Trophy, he had tried to obtain a Rolls Royce type R engine to power a boat to challenge the American speedboat racer, Gar Wood for the Harmsworth Trophy. Wood's massive speedboat America X had four engines and nearly 8,000 horsepower.

This is my version!

Those of a sensitive disposition should turn down the volume BEFORE playing the video.

Neil
8 March 2016 at 10:11 #228957
Gray62
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shame we can't hear the roar of the massive engine over the backing music
8 March 2016 at 10:17 #228958
Neil Wyatt
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It's more of a gentle whirr with a BLDC outrunner

Neil
8 March 2016 at 11:58 #228981
Russell Eberhardt
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Why the "music" if you could call it that otherwise a good video.

Russell.
8 March 2016 at 17:03 #229032
duncan webster 1
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Very nice. What you need now is a sound chip, amplifier and speaker, then you can make it sound like a Merlin.
8 March 2016 at 17:22 #229036
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Posted by duncan webster on 08/03/2016 17:03:19:

Very nice. What you need now is a sound chip, amplifier and speaker, then you can make it sound like a Merlin.

Sacrilege! It's a Napier Lion!

Neil
8 March 2016 at 17:23 #229037
Neil Wyatt
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Posted by Russell Eberhardt on 08/03/2016 11:58:48:

Why the "music" if you could call it that otherwise a good video.

Russell.

Oi! That's me & my bro'! You can't moan it came with a health warning.

Neil
8 March 2016 at 18:02 #229043
duncan webster 1
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Posted by Neil Wyatt on 08/03/2016 17:22:56:

Posted by duncan webster on 08/03/2016 17:03:19:

Very nice. What you need now is a sound chip, amplifier and speaker, then you can make it sound like a Merlin.

Sacrilege! It's a Napier Lion!

Neil

So find a recording of one of those!

Edited By duncan webster on 08/03/2016 18:03:26
8 March 2016 at 18:19 #229049
Bazyle
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Well corporate IT don't like something about that video server. Will have to try at home. Don't care about the boat but now I want to hear what the 'musak' is like.
8 March 2016 at 18:28 #229050
Neil Wyatt
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Posted by Bazyle on 08/03/2016 18:19:41:

Well corporate IT don't like something about that video server.

Goggle cloud.

Neil
8 March 2016 at 21:41 #229068
Phil Whitley
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Like it! the real one is in the foyer of the Maritime museum in London. Having a Napier engine put it on my must see list on a trip to 'T smoke a couple of years ago.

Phil
9 March 2016 at 07:10 #229097
Gary Wooding
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I just get a blank area where, I suppose, the video should appear. I'm using Firefox under Win10 x64.
9 March 2016 at 12:03 #229165
Ian S C
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There is a Napier Lion in Peter Jackson's vintage aviation museum, I'll hunt out a photo.

Ian S C
9 March 2016 at 12:21 #229167
KWIL
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Gary,

Firefox and Win10 x64 works for me.
9 March 2016 at 13:00 #229174
Ian S C
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Here we go. Ian S C Sorry got the photos in the wrong order.

Edited By Ian S C on 09/03/2016 13:03:52
9 March 2016 at 13:06 #229175
Ian S C
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9 March 2016 at 16:45 #229215
Howard Lewis
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The thing that surprised me when I saw it was, just how spindly the crankshaft was.

Nevertheless, the Lion saved many lives powering WW2 Air Sea Rescue launches.

Great British engineering that is no more, sadly.

Howard
9 March 2016 at 19:06 #229228
Neil Wyatt
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The Napier Heritage Trust had a display at the last Model; Engineer exhibition.

Neil
10 March 2016 at 09:41 #229281
Ian S C
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I believe tat the one in the photo is serviceable. Which boat was it in in 1930.

Howard I expect they could make the crankshaft more "flimsy" owing to the fact that it is fairly short with the cylinders in three banks of four.

Ian S C

Edited By Ian S C on 10/03/2016 10:11:31
10 March 2016 at 12:14 #229314
Gary Wooding
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Posted by KWIL on 09/03/2016 12:21:00:

Gary,

Firefox and Win10 x64 works for me.

Hmmm,

I had a Win10 upgrade and reboot last night, and upgraded Firefox to the latest level (45.0) and still get a blank area instead of a video.
10 March 2016 at 12:35 #229316
Neil Wyatt
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Video is on the Google cloud, apparently schools and colleges use it to host videos because it allows them to avoid You Tube (even though Google own You Tube!).

There are some stills and more details here:

http://www.stubmandrel.co.uk/other-models/66-miss-britain-iii

Neil
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