I also had a starter motor connected with a belt on a hand truck to start my McCulloch engine back in the 60's and early 70's Jimbo
I never knew MW ever had any catalogs. Then again we were a Sears family since my mom worked for Sears.
various. last is the b-36 that hauled the nuclear engine aloft. note the nuclear symbol, and hole near the tail that was the exhaust, and air scoops. the plane was not powered by it. B-50 in background. Altitude test/ how nuts is this test
Did you have a throttle plate in the carb? Played with a twin engine McCulloch kart a little in 60’s that was direct chain drive (no clutches), which had to be push started or rolled off a stand after start. It didn’t have throttle plates in carbs of either engine. Gas peddle just contacted a normally closed kill switch hooked to both engines. If pedal was pressed (switch open) both engines were wide open, lifted foot off switch both engines were off but turning because of kart momentum, when you hit switch again like coming out of corner it ran wide open down straight away until foot off switch causing kart to coast into next corner. Only way to pace it on pace lap was rapid tapping of switch.Wild ride for sure!
Miss essex. a remington bernelli rb2. i found a pic of this like ten years ago and had no idea what it was. the body is a lifting body, which allowed it to carry the most weight of the period. (body is wing shaped and adds lift). the pic i saw was this goofy looking thing crashed at logan airport in boston. didn't look too aerodynamic. actually was a beast. Hudson hired it in 1925? to fly an essex terraplane around the country. no details on crash at boston. was fixed and finished its life flying freight. 1 is the pic by leslie jones that started it. 2 next pic i found of model. was colorful. still no idea why it was named such. 3. car inside. 4. headlights peaking out thru window. 3. another crash view, spare tire is visible thru the window. 5. trials at mitchell field long island. took me a while to figure out the where. 6. the pic that told me the where. in middle left, note the visiting ships lettering. the rest are various , and a U 20 bernelli that ford and sunoco hired to show how cool they were. i'm sure they milked it for high altitude/cold weather "stuff". they prob hired the guy weighing 10w30 from a few pages back. solid data folks.
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