Popular Mechanics - USA (2020-09 & 2020-10)
M ike Hughes grew up a garage rat in Oklahoma City, forever rattling around the family auto- body shop. His father, Jay, worked ...
him. “I was curious about this rocket he was building,” Stakes says. He found Hughes working in the back of a transmission shop ...
his money and couldn’t find a spon- sor, even though, he says, “it would go straight and was capable of 1,000 miles per hour.” L ...
▶Hughes enters his steam-powered rocket Hchange its stance, how to pull the center ughes how to balance his rocket and before hi ...
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that could travel farther. But the sec- ond launch attempt was even more of a debacle. Hughes and Stakes argued about Mike’s dec ...
continued on page 76 stay off of federal land—a tricky prop- osition, given that they didn’t know exactly how far the rocket mig ...
THE GENTLEMAN’S RACER DESIGN CAME FROM OLD POPULAR MECHANICS PLANS. 46 September/October 2020 BY JIM EICHER ...
September/October 2020 47 ...
JIM EI CH ER (T HIS PA GE );^ D R.^ SC OT T^ B IXL ER (P RE VIO US SP RE AD ) M My family has owned a Ford dealership since befo ...
CO LIN M CS HE RR Y^ ( PA PE RC LIP ) nice balance between nostalgia and reliability. I also modified the original engine instal ...
SHAPING THE BOAT THE DIFFERENT ENGINE CAUSED A FEW ripple effects in how I had to alter the Popu- lar Mechanics design. Because ...
◀ Once I had completed the frame, I applied the mahogany outer layer. ▶ The unique history of the Gentleman’s Racer inspired me ...
JIM EI CH ER ;^ D R.^ SC OT T^ B IXL ER (B OA T^ I N^ W AT ER );^ C OL IN^ MC SH ER RY (P AP ER CL IP) ◀ The oak for the boat co ...
TESTING ITS PERFORMANCE UPDATING A CLASSIC THE BOOK’S MATERIALS LIST WAS A BIT DATED. AN OBVIOUS example: The instructions calle ...
Defiant Vs. Valor INSIDE THE HEAD-TO- HEAD BATTLE TO REPLACE THE BLACK HAWK n 2022 the U.S. Army will choose a new aircraft to r ...
▶ Defiant and Valor employ programmable f ly-by- wire digital f light controls, but the way they f ly is different. Their respec ...
▶ As a medium-lift helicopter replacement, Valor or Defiant will have to haul soldiers, weapons, or gear to battle just like the ...
LIFTING OFF AND CLIMBING OUT ▶ When f lying the Valor or Defiant, there are two common themes: power and speed. Despite both air ...
▶ Given sophisticated anti-aircraft threats, the Army reckons its FLR A A aircraft will need to f ly fast and low, fig- urativel ...
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