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Re: Drop Tanks?

Posted by Jim on Sat May 18, 2002 08:59:32 AM

In reply top Re: Drop Tanks? posted by Tom on Sat May 18, 2002 08:05:34 AM


I think the salt flats racers used post-WWII jet-era drop tanks. I'm not sure that WWII tanks would be large enough to hold a person and an engine.

Looking around ex-AAF bases would be a good start. It's likely drops tanks would have been buried along with other discarded material.



: I do remember seeing an article in some publication which
: had pics of Salt flat racers in the states who used drop t
: anks as a basis for a racer, perfect shape after all, dunn
: o if there are any left nowadays. As for the UK I've never
: seen a drop tank on my travels around the farms, most lik
: ely place to look would be on livestock farms around ex-US
: AF bases I would think.
:
: Tom ;)

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