Received the following link via email from a friend. Hope ya'all don't mind
following links to get pics.

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No more magnetos!

This is interesting. Note the Dolby boiler behind the engine. At the time,
the Stanley Steamer took about 20 minutes to heat up. Dolby had invented
the flash boiler, which was ready to go in a few seconds. Full steam power
took longer.

I wonder what the range could have been??

The Besler Steam Plane 1933 - the first (and probably only) plane which
successfully went into the air under steam power!

"Jim Townsend" > wrote in message
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> "Jim" <jaahrens NOSPAM at yahoo dot com> wrote:
>
>> Received the following link via email from a friend. Hope ya'all don't
>> mind
>> following links to get pics.
>
> I don't see any links...
>
> Here's one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw6NFmcnW-8
>
>>
>> ----Original Message----
>>
>>
>> No more magnetos!
>>
>> This is interesting. Note the Dolby boiler behind the engine. At the
>> time,
>> the Stanley Steamer took about 20 minutes to heat up. Dolby had invented
>> the flash boiler, which was ready to go in a few seconds. Full steam
>> power
>> took longer.
>>
>> I wonder what the range could have been??
>>
>> The Besler Steam Plane 1933 - the first (and probably only) plane which
>> successfully went into the air under steam power!

That's because my fingers were faster than my intention. The link was sent
in the mia culpa message right after the bad one. Its in the second
message.

"Jim" <jaahrens NOSPAM at yahoo dot com> wrote in message
...
> Received the following link via email from a friend. Hope ya'all don't
> mind following links to get pics.
>
> ----Original Message----
>
>
> No more magnetos!
>
> This is interesting. Note the Dolby boiler behind the engine. At the
> time, the Stanley Steamer took about 20 minutes to heat up. Dolby had
> invented the flash boiler, which was ready to go in a few seconds. Full
> steam power took longer.
>
> I wonder what the range could have been??
>
> The Besler Steam Plane 1933 - the first (and probably only) plane which
> successfully went into the air under steam power!

Dolby boiler? Or -- maybe -- a Doble steam vehicle engine?
The Beslar steam aircraft is identified elsewhere as being a Travelair 2000
powered by a _Doble_ engine.
http://www.flysteam.co.uk/history.htm