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Stephan Wilkinsona longtime expert on the ways men entertain themselves when no one is telling them what to dotakes readers into the high speed, high risk world of restored jets, fast boats, and Formula 1 cars. Wilkinson visits a factory where Amish men build custom ambulances, flies an airliner from the glory days of air travel, meets a bird that is a killing machine, and has a hot date with a handgun. In another chapter, Wilkinson relates the hazards of flying purely on instruments, and why being able to do so can make the difference between life and death. He draws from his own misadventures in flight and explains exactly why the high end Beech Bonanza is known as the doctor killer. And dissecting the finely tuned instrument that is the Formula 1 car, Wilkinson relates how the engine's connecting rods actually stretch at 19,000 rpm, even though they're made of titanium, and what can happen when a racecar brakes at 6Gs. Always entertaining, Wilkinson takes men, and maybe even a few women, where they love to go under the hood, over the mechanic's shoulder, and behind the wheel. Table of Contents Editors Introduction The World's Loudest Airplane Do the Locomotion Hot Dare with a Handgun Vern Raburn's Connie Go, Karts! Formula None Flying Fortress dB Drag Racing The Shipping News Eject! Ambulance Driver Flying Wings The Concept Car Concept Hawk Tanks, Hot Rods, and Salt Vee is for V12 Wally 118 They Named Ith the Seahorse, But They Called It the Dog Picnic Boat Symmetry Kayaks How Pilots Thinks Quarter Pint Albatros DB 601 The Yo Yos The Grandest Piano The Joy of Flying About the Author Stephan Wilkinson is the consulting editor of Popular Science. He was editor of Car and Driver and he is the author of The Gold Plated Porsche. He lives in upstate New York.
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