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The term streamliner generally refers to a vehicle incorporating streamlining in a shape providing reduced air resistance Wikimedia Commons has media related to Streamliners . Subcategories
A streamliner is a vehicle incorporating streamlining in a shape providing reduced air resistance. The term is applied to high-speed railway trainsets of the 1930s to 1950s, and to their successor " bullet trains ".
[2] [6] The streamliner shell is a monocoque constructed from carbon fiber/kevlar. The motorcycle was designed and built by Matt Markstaller, an engineer who designed and built a wind tunnel for tractor-trailers in Portland, Oregon. [6] [7] It was ridden by Jason DiSalvo, followed by Guy Martin. [8] [6]
Wynns Stormer is a streamliner dragster. [1]Built in 1972 by Woody Gilmore (who also produced Don Prudhomme's wedge digger), on a Woody chassis, [2] the car had bicycle front wheels and dropped front axle, a very pointed nose, and an engine cover with broad, wedge-like fairings over the exhaust pipes, ahead of the rear tires; the fairings sloped steeply from track level to the top of the tires.
H: 1.1 m (43 in) [4] The NSU Delphin III streamliner motorcycle set the motorcycle land speed record in 1956. Wilhelm Herz rode the machine to 211.4 miles per hour (340.2 km/h) at Bonneville Speedway in Utah, to break 200 mph (320 km/h) for the first time. [ 5 ]
Scrimaliner is a streamliner slingshot dragster. [1] Designed by Ronnie Scrima, Scrimaliner was built by Scrima and George Bacilek, with the aluminum body hammered by Bob Sorrell, painted metalflake red. [1] There was a small wing between the bicycle wheels, and the cockpit was fully enclosed. [2]
The M-10000 was an early American streamlined passenger trainset that operated for the Union Pacific Railroad from 1934 until 1941. It was the first streamlined passenger train to be delivered in the United States, and the second to enter regular service after the Pioneer Zephyr of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.
Hal Roach's Streamliners are a series of featurette comedy films created by Hal Roach that are longer than a short subject and shorter than a feature film, not exceeding 50 minutes in length. [1] Twenty of the 29 features that Roach produced for United Artists were in the streamliner format. [1] They usually consisted of five 10-minute reels. [2]