Sunday, April 6, 2008

Renault Alpine A442

The Renault Alpine A442 is a sports prototype racing car, designed and built by Alpine, but funded and powered by Alpine's owners Renault, specifically to contest the 24 Hours of Le Mans race.

Variants were entered for the event in 1976, 1977 and 1978, and an A442B finally won the race on the third occasion, in the hands of Didier Pironi and Jean-Pierre Jaussaud.

Also entered in 1978 was the updated Renault Alpine A443 model; essentially an A442 chassis, but powered by a new 2138 cc engine. Following this all-French victory in the premier French motorsport event, Renault withdrew from sports car racing to concentrate their efforts in Formula One.

Saturday, April 5, 2008

Eclipse 500

The Eclipse 500 is a small American six-seat business jet aircraft manufactured by Eclipse Aviation. It is the second of a new class of business jets called Very Light Jets (VLJ), following the delivery of the first VLJ, the Cessna Citation Mustang in late 2006.

The aircraft is powered by two lightweight Pratt & Whitney Canada PW610F turbofan engines in tail-mounted nacelles.

General characteristics
* Crew: one or two pilots
* Capacity: 4 to 5 passengers
* Length: 33 ft 1 in (10.1 m)
* Wingspan: 37 ft 3 in (11.4 m)
* Height: 11 ft 0 in (3.4 m)
* Empty weight: 3,550 lb (1,610 kg)
* Loaded weight: 5,520 lb (2,504 kg)
* Useful load: 2,400 lb (1,089 kg)
* Max takeoff weight: 5,950 lb (2,699 kg)
* Powerplant: 2× Pratt & Whitney Canada PW610F turbofan engines, 900 lbf (4 kN flat-rated to > ISA+10C) each

Performance
* Cruise speed: 370 knots (425 mph, 685 km/h)
* Stall speed: 67 knots (77 mph, 124 km/h) in landing configuration
* Range: 1,125 nm (1,295 mi, 2,084 km)
* Service ceiling 41,000 ft (12,500 m)
* Takeoff distance: 2,155 ft (657 m)
* Landing distance: 2,040 ft (622 m)

Avionics
* Avio Next Generation (aka Avio NG)
* Displays: Two 768 x 1024 resolution PFD displays and One 1440 x 900 resolution MFD display.

Jaguar Cars Limited

Jaguar Cars Limited is a British luxury car manufacturer, with headquarters in Browns Lane, Coventry, England. It was founded in 1922.

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Friday, April 4, 2008

Alfa Romeo T33 TT/12

Alfa Romeo introduced the 33 TT 12 (Telaio Tubolare, tubular chassis) in 1973 which had Carlo Chiti-designed 12 cylinder 3.0L flat engine (500 bhp).

Season 1973 was more or less development time and in 1974 the car took win at Monza 1000 km and finished the season with second place in the championship. It wasn’t until 1975 when after years of trying Alfa Romeo won sport cars world championship.

The season was almost total domination, seven wins in eight races.[1]Winning drivers were: Arturo Merzario, Vittorio Brambilla, Jacques Laffite, Henri Pescarolo, Derek Bell and Jochen Mass. For 1976 Autodelta was concentrating other things and the car was rarely used in competitions.

Cessna Citation Mustang,

The Cessna Citation Mustang, Model 510, is a "very light jet" (VLJ) class business jet built by Cessna Aircraft Company at their Independence, Kansas production facility.

The Mustang, in standard configuration, has four passenger seats in the aft cabin and seating for two in the cockpit. Like other very light jets, the Mustang is approved for single-pilot operation.

General characteristics
* Crew: one or two pilots
* Capacity: 4 to 5 passengers
* Length: 40'7" (12.37 m)
* Wingspan: 43'2" (13.16 m)
* Height: 13'5" (4.09 m)
* Max takeoff weight: 8,645 lb (3,930 kg)
* Powerplant: 2× Pratt & Whitney Canada PW615F turbofan engines, 1,460 lb/ea. (6.49 kN) each

Performance
* Cruise speed: 340 kn (630 km/h)
* Range: 1,167 nmi (at max. weight) (2,161 km)
* Service ceiling 41,000 ft (12,500 m)
* Takeoff distance: 3,110 ft (948 m)
* Landing distance: 2,380 ft (729 m)

Izhevsk Mechanical Works

Izhevsk Mechanical Works (Ижевский Mашзавод) or IZhMASh (ИЖМАШ) is a large corporation. It makes the famous Kalashnikov assault rifle, along with medium cannons, missiles, and guided shells. Izhmash also produces motorcycles and cars.

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Thursday, April 3, 2008

Ferrari 512

The Ferrari 512 was a sports car, related to the Ferrari P series of sports prototypes. It was raced in 1970 and 1971, then withdrawn from competition following a change in the regulations.

For the 1970 season, Ferrari decided to do what Porsche had done earlier with the Porsche 917, that is, build 25 examples of a 5.0 L car to allow homologation into the FIA's Group 5 Sports Car category. With the financial help of Fiat, that risky investment was made, and surplus cars were intended to be sold to racing customers.

The motor of the 512S was a new V12 with 560 PS (412 kW) output. Compared to Porsche's flat-12 monster, it had the disadvantage of not being air-cooled, so it needed a maze of cooling pipes and a heavy radiator.

Since the chassis was of sturded steel, reinforced with aluminum sheet, weight was 100 kg more than that of the alloy-framed 917. Notwithstanding the weight difference, the Ferrari 512S and Porsche 917 were theoretically fairly even matched.

Eclipse ECJ

The Eclipse ECJ is a very light jet produced by Eclipse Aviation introduced at Airventure 2007, it is a concept plane and Eclipse will decide within 12 months whether to produce the jet or not.

If produced, the aircraft will compete with the Cirrus Jet, the PiperJet, the Epic Victory, and the Diamond D-Jet in the single-engine jet market. The ECJ will have one engine, seat 4 and have a v-tail similar to the Cirrus Jet.

Vern Raburn, President of Eclipse Aviation, has stated that the price of the ECJ will be about $1 million, if it goes on the market

General characteristics
* Crew: One-two pilots
* Capacity: 2-3 passengers
* Length: 29 ft 0 in (8.84 m)
* Wingspan: 36 ft 0 in (10.98 m)
* Height: 8 ft 10 in (2.69 m)
* Empty weight: 2,480 lb (1,125 kg)
* Gross weight: 4,480 lb (2,032 kg)
* Powerplant: 1 × Pratt & Whitney Canada PW615F turbofan, 1,100 lbf (4.9 kN)

Performance
* Cruise speed: 400 mph (640 km/h)
* Range: 1,445 miles (2,315 km)
* Service ceiling: 41,000 ft (12,500 m)