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Man Builds Turbine Powered Batmobile
hasanabbas1987 writes "Casey Putsch, the famous car restorer, puts a new meaning to the word 'Fanboy' as he builds a Batmobile and powers it with a Boeing turboshaft engine taken from a drone helicopter. According to Casey this is the only one of its kind and even Bruce Wayne would've been proud of his work. Internal mods include an iPad in the dashboard which serves as an avionics system and GPS coordinates."
I'm glad to see that he also has a Viper.
When did you people stop being content with a simple rickroll? This is why Slashdot needs a "delete for spam" option.
Okay, but the Dark Knight would be a little more careful about protecting his identify than risk being outed by putting his real family name on the dashboard MFD.
Loud as hell and you'd figure it would go really fast but NO. I bet the people he passed on the road were like "WTF I done seen the batmobile".
"We are just a war away from Amerikastan. When god vs god the undoing of man." Dave Mustaine
It's a trap!
When did you people stop being content with a simple rickroll? This is why Slashdot needs a "delete for spam" option.
Well, a "disable links" option would be sufficient, and less easily abused.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Dude needs to buy a really nice batman costume PRONTO and upload videos of ordering at drive thru's.
mov ah, 4ch
int 21h
Anybody know if he has a 1/4 mile time somewhere? This thing look slooooow.
The bottom must be hell on bumps.
"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results" - Winston Churchill
"Name, the famous..." is almost never as famous as you want to make us believe.
Google your Statutory Law and you will discover that all "Roads are Open as a Matter of Right to Public Vehicular Travel."
Licenses are privilege to use a private road, and the legislature of every country so-far has only posted such regulations in terms of regulating COMMERCIAL USES of the roads. Do you know the difference between Regulation and Law? For Regulations you attend Municipal Court, meanwhile for Law you go back to the Country to attend County Court.
Learn2History.
Link is a bit slashdotted. Google Cache to the rescue. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eMZHEQ4ntkUJ:www.kbiii.com/putschracing/%3Fp%3D50+Turbine+Powered+Batmobile+site:kbiii.com&hl=en&gl=us&strip=0
Well that is pretty cool but if it doesn't go as fast as a rocket then what's the point?
Mean what you say...say what you mean.
I know what I'm asking Santa for this Christmas...
I wonder if his insurance deductible will go up after he sucks a bicyclist into his engine.
... it is LOUD and slow... awesome... not really... NO!
And fix the slashdotted server!
"I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
Youtube video of the thing. Very nice.
It looks like the interior isn't finished. The right third of the dashboard is still open, with cables hanging out, and there's a keyboard stuffed in. So they're still debugging. When he parks the thing and closes the canopy, it gets quieter, so the turbine noise is being dumped into the cockpit. No wonder he wears noise-cancelling headphones.
5? and I don't think the BP has jet fuel.
His website is steam powered.
Enough of that you sick fuck
Ipad powered batmobile at 0:29 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nZSBpFMWk-M#at=29
Mother used to said If you want you find a way But mother never danced through fire shower
It has the sleek coolness factor of the bat mobile but totally has no stealth whatsoever. You can probably hear that thing coming from a mile away! Nevertheless, I am glad to see that America still has some engineers!
How about a don't show me posts from this IP address option? Don't tell me what it is, just don't show me its posts.
In the given case, the post came from a logged-in user. Therefore your foe list should be sufficient for that.
Also, blocking a certain IP wouldn't do much good for dynamic IPs.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Yeah, I said "Neat-o". A word right from the 1960's and 70's.
Turboshaft engines make absolutely TERRIBLE car engines.
They only run in a very tight RPM range.
They are noisy as fuck.
They produce copious amounts of heat and must be properly cooled (like in an aircraft that when moving can provide a constant high volume source of ram air to cool the engine).
They guzzle fuel at a breathtaking rate.
They only survive a fairly small fixed number of startup/shutdown cycles before the "hot section" must be overhauled because the heating/cooling extremes are devastating in terms of metal fatigue of those parts.
Chrysler learned all this back in the 1950's with their turbine car experiment.
Back in the late 1970's, there was one of the car magazines... can't remember if it was Popular Hotrodding or Hot Rod or one of the others, but someone (Andy Granatelli maybe?) built a turbine-powered Corvette, with a 1200 shp engine from some aircraft, and mated it to a THM-400 automatic transmission. They built a exhaust "muffler" airbox structure that occupied nearly the complete underbelly of the car, with various baffles and long rectangular chambers to try to quiet the thing down enough to not lose your hearing while driving it on the road. With the engine at idle, it would speed up to 70 MPH as the THM400 shifted thru its 3 gears. A full throttle run from a standing stop would smoke the rear tires for the entire length of a 1/4 mile dragstrip, yielding only 12 seconds flat 1/4 mile times because so much energy was wasted spinning the tires too much and they'd never properly grab the pavement. Top end was "ludicrous speed", probably more than the tires or that vintage Corvette's body and chassis were capable of handling safely.... like a fatal wreck just waiting to happen.
50 comments already and nobody has referenced "Atomic batteries to power; turbines to speed" yet??
It seems like Mr Putsch here has pulled off quite a coup.
I am officially gone from
This looks really cool and certainly puts out some impressive noise. But it's hard to get excited when there's no info on horsepower, MPH, time to 60mph, or any other interesting facts.
But mostly watching him cruise at 8mph is just frustrating.
OK dude, very cool. You put a ton of effort into building something really neat. But with all that engineering and noise it needs to do more than act as a lone parade float. Would love to see you racing it through the Nevada desert....
Kudos for taking it this far of course and making us hungry for more.
Operator, give me the number for 911!
Is that it? Just a bunch of noise like a 17 year old in his moms Chevette with the tunz cranked? All noise and no show? You could even get 'sounds like a jet plane' noise coming out of the stereo with that baaaad boy! The guy with the Volkswagen Beetle with the normal engine in front, and a 1750 HP jet engine sticking out the back looked a lot more dangerous and I think bug-boy could take bat-boy and give him more than just noise. He could even Toast Him.
Now all he gotta do is build some atomic batteries and he can go 'Atomic batteries to power!.... Turbines to speed!'
When in your unlimited liability, you can only be held accoutable to your actions when it effects others. Everything else you say about some thing as having "risks" to others is only your debate of future interests and something that hasn't happened yet outside of law.
Learn2Liberty: Learn2Freedom.
And you don't know what you are talking about, because all you say is doctrine of which is typical of your schooling.
Let me backpedal for you. The nature of licentiousness is that you have a disability in your character that prevents you from asserting any rights on a given matter, while a license in law is simply just that but in a perview of commerce then that characterizes that a Driver License to be the terms of regulation from the legislature that you are to be regulated for commerce on the public roads. A driver License by nature is you ask permition from another privateer that doesn't own the public roads, that privateer is to regulate your commerce upon those public roads not owned by them. I am quoting from my side of the venue, the 46th Legislature of 1925 for the State of California. Do you not know that the State of New York was the first to legislate a Driver Licensing registry in all of America and the State of California was second to that perspiration? I know what I'm talking about.
The perview of the State legislature was to "provide a licensing fee for the transportation of cargo and passengers for hire, compensation, or profit." There you have it, do you have anything contrary to that? Reading the General Provisions of the 1st title for the federal corporation DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES to assume that position of trust, and quoting their Motor Vehicle Code from memmory is "Insofar this title is consistent with the original enactment, it is a continuation or reenstatement of prior..."
There are two sides to the matter of a driver License, because there is the purpose for that License that is being ignored, as we don't just presume that EVERYONE is required to obtain such licensing because of the hype of it: first is the Jurisdiction of a overseeing that qualified person to direct that property, and second is the Regulation over that property which establishes a metric for it's character as carried by that vessel regulated under the guise of Motor Vehicle.
I'm not making this up. In terms of public law, the people own as much of the road individually as is the dimensions of their automobile: treat the road as a FIFO buffer and you own it for what you displace others from holding. DMV is looking at the matter in terms of the private improvements ontop of the public road, those federal improvements are the asphault which as you may figure is the foreign regulation that has displaced your liberty and freedom.
Consider the fact that The United States only exists in the District of Columbia, not to be confused with the Several States west of the Mississippi River and the 13 States of America east of the Mississippi River. If you are required to have a License to use roads, then you are a 2nd-class citizen -- or at-least you've been deprived of your good and lawful character because you assent to the doctrine that it is convenient for a 3rd-party to regulate what they are ill-qualified to do because a farmer cleared the Roads first and the Federal government intentionally paved the public roads to default the locals on unpayed service to which you are now expected to tithe forever just because your doctrine is conventient. If this is the case, then I welcome the flying machines, but someone timid as yourself will probably be the Judas goat that convinces everyone to pay a air-quality tax. In these regards, if your machine causes harm to others around you then a common man is addressed in county court in full unlimited liability. Otherwise he is regulated, and so enjoy those penalties and imprisonment threats from Municipal Court for breach of contract.
Good solution against tailgaters. The hot exhaust of the turbine will take care of them!
to me.
Now all he needs to do is get it stuck under the Wall Street Bull.
I would like to know if it works, and if so, what is the top speed of the vehicle, as well as how well does it handle on turns etc....
I was laughing at the look of it driving down the highway, thinking to myself how out of place it looks with the farm houses and silos. If only he was a little farther north he could have passed some Amish buggies.
What, me worry?