connections between early vehicles and aircraft, multiple innovators used a variety of car and motorcycle parts to power early aircaft

1958 home made helicopter with a Triumph engine

1925 Henderson/Indian engine with a Ford Model T front wheel spindle used as prop shaft

and a engine from McCulloch for a target drone project. McCulloch supercharger and Magneto

all found at the San Diego Air and Space Museum  loacation at the Santee airstrip at Gillespie Field

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The oldest garage in Glenwood... the bikes are cool!

look how torn up the road is, must have predated the roads being laid out with beds

found on http://carrosantigos.wordpress.com

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Nik ( carrosantigos.wordpress.com ) finds the coolest stuff! a 1915 Indian Motorcycle brochure, with incredible cool stuff

Guaranteed speed of 70 mph... in 1915! Damn, that must have been crazy considering the road conditions and amount of horse crap you'd be likely to run over. Proabably most of Americans were still using horses as transportation then.. it was a far different world than today when you won't ever see a horse on a road

And in less than 100 years we have transitioned from telegraph to texting... that is astonishing

check out http://carrosantigos.wordpress.com for the full brochure, and lots of other cool stuff

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