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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 ".
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe: Aerotrain (GM) (San Diegan) Boston and Maine / Maine Central Flying Yankee (No. 6000); Chicago, Burlington & Quincy: Ak-Sar-Ben Zephyr
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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.
What are Streamliner automobiles? So far this category includes three distinct groups with no overlap and that hardly belong under a shared category: 1930s designs in the 'streamline' style, mostly with poor aerodynamics developed from aesthetic principles rather than aerodynamic, e.g. International Harvester Metro Van and the Lincoln-Zephyr
The Lark Streamliner is an electric streamliner motorcycle built to challenge the standing land speed record for two-wheeled vehicles. The builder, Shea Nyquist, is an American aerospace engineer educated at San Jose State University . [ 2 ]