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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."
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.
Get an ax!
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
I would imagine it CAN go fast as hell, but he was on the road. Not like he could open it all the way up. I would like to see some track footage. Loud as hell? Umm yeah It a helicopter turbine wtf did you expect?
The bottom must be hell on bumps.
"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results" - Winston Churchill
It probably could go faster, but it would require a closed course and/or special permits. It's not like he's magically immune from all traffic laws on public roads like Batman.
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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.
If I were a cop and saw this dude.. I'd pull him over and say, "Um, let's see how this thing fairs on the freeway.."
I know what I'm asking Santa for this Christmas...
That isn't a Viper. I think it's a Cheetah.
And fix the slashdotted server!
"I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
What horsepower is that engine? There were no stats on his homepage.
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.
Well generally speaking with turbine power you get really terrible throttle response. I imagine you'd have to be really careful with this car because once you got up to speed it's probably very difficult to stop. With turbines everything works in a delayed slow motion kind of way. It takes a long time to spin up to speed and a long time to spin down.
I imagine it's probably capable of pretty fast speed but I doubt the aerodynamics are designed properly or even tested and you would really want that done before running flat out. You'd have to do it in a very open area with lots of room to stop, like Bonneville or something.
Not really a practical car in any way but it's cool. I can just imagine the looks on people's faces when they hear that thing.
Enough of that you sick fuck
Too bad everything is basically the opposite of what you say. You do not (necessarily) need licenses for private roads, especially not from the government. If there were restrictions on a private road they would necessarily be *private* and you'd need whatever authorization the road's owner required. Licenses are a requirement to operate a vehicle on public roads in the US at a state level, and they are also only half of the picture. "Street legal" refers not to licenses at all but to vehicle registration. Vehicles must meet safety, emissions, and other standards determined by each state before they can be registered. While some vehicles are exempt from these standards it is usually because they have been grandfathered in from earlier periods of vehicle manufacture before given standards were implemented.
The doctrine of open roads is not that anybody can drive anything, but rather that other persons/agencies cannot impede others on public roads for reasons in excess of legal frameworks such as licensing, registration, and traffic laws. It's meant to prevent discrimination or attempts at passive harassment such as trying to block roads or certain persons or classes of persons. Your legal interpretation is not borne out in any case law I assure you.
I am not a lawyer and the above should not be construed as legal advice.
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Probably somewhere between 300-500hp. It appears to be a Boeing T50/502. Although, I wouldn't imagine it's all that fast on the 1/4 mile. Turboshaft engines are designed to operate at a constant speed and are very inefficient when used like a piston engine.
Knowledge Brings Fear
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.
That's just the matter of using the right transmission for the job. Or, failing that, a generator and an electric engine to actually turn the wheels.
Horsepowers = acceleration. If this equation does not hold, don't blame the engine.
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
looks like a puma to me
hey Griff, what's that mexican lizard that eats all them goats?
I've decided to Diversify my Holdings. I've divided my cash between my left and right pockets, instead of all in one.
thx for modding me down, humor is a strange thing
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!
Now all he gotta do is build some atomic batteries and he can go 'Atomic batteries to power!.... Turbines to speed!'
Good solution against tailgaters. The hot exhaust of the turbine will take care of them!
Immune? At least in the TV show Batman was scrupulous in following all traffic laws and wearing seatbelts, sometimes to Robin's annoyance.
That's not a good example, as the Terrafugia is allowed to be driven on the road according to NHTSA. It has now been cleared for air and road use due to certain exemptions it has received specifically due to those challenges of making a dual use vehicle.
Here is the news release on it: http://www.terrafugia.com/news_media.html
Bill
It's my Sig and you can't have it. Mine! All Mine!
Why... when it's built by you for your own personal use, patents and copyrights don't apply.
Bill
It's my Sig and you can't have it. Mine! All Mine!
There was an episode of the original series where one of the villains plants a bomb in the batmobile set if the speedometer hit 60 MPH (or something, like 5 over the limit) and Robin was learning to drive. Bats was very preachy making sure Robin obeyed all traffic laws including the speed limit, so the bomb remained unboomed and eventually discovered.
When you sympathize with stupidity, you start thinking like an idiot.
You're basically trying to justify the continuance of behavior that was acceptable before laws changed because there weren't laws before there were laws. It's a ridiculous sort of argument that doesn't work in any Western civil society. There was a time when you didn't need pilot licenses to fly or ships' masters licenses to operate heavy commercial vessels, that doesn't mean the same holds true forever. You do either one now and you'll end up on the losing side of a court battle and fast. The same is true of drivers licenses, vehicle registration, etc. You want to fight those battles based on some anachronism, you're welcome to do it.
You also seem very confused as to the division between the federal government and the states. The federal government primarily funds only interstate highways. Almost all regulation of roads falls on the states, as does licensing itself, which is only interstate by way of the 'full faith and credit' clause (which should really apply to licenses to carry concealed weapons, but national reciprocity keeps getting shut down in both congress and courts).
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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?