Taking the Air (1941)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ธ.ค. 2013
- Studies In Streamlining From The Days Of Horatio Phillips To Modern Times. Evolution Of Automobile From Its Beginning To Present Streamlined Shape Is Exemplified In The 1941 Chevrolet.
This movie is part of the collection: Prelinger Archives
Producer: Handy (Jam) Organization
Sponsor: Chevrolet Division, General Motors Corporation
Audio/Visual: sound, color - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
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Loved when he said "the 90's" :D Meaning 1890.
Took me a second to catch that, too! lol
An example of the Y1.9K bug.
Good Golly GadZooks, them 3 dames at the end, Hot DOG!
Hey man, you're checking out my grandma!
Sex sells everything-then as now
I love '40's cars! The art-deco details and sense of quality about them in and out make them my favorites. Not to forget that satisfying odor of those mohair interiors!
We used to call it pleasant scent, but...to each their own
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar When the odor is mild, on a warm day, it has a "homey" smell like a cozy old house. I know a lot of people, mostly the old-timers, that love it.
@@josephconsoli4128 its just the word satisfying that confuses me, maybe pleasant or rich seasonal, homely, calming. But satisfying is a little odd of a word to use that's all.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar "Satisfying" is actually defined as giving pleasure and/or making happy. I guess you can call my choosing it "poetic license" LOL
@@josephconsoli4128 ah indeed, I see
If Mr. Philips would have used all that smoke from his pipe instead of feathers, he would have really been on to something.
Surprisingly 'ol Horatio, didn't consider using smoke as he smokes a cigar instead of feathers to observe airflow. Even though it was the 90's! 👍🏻😉
well.. it is much much easier to use the feathers for a more constant rate and visual look at the airflow. I'm sure he used some smoke, but it just isn't consistent enough along with only having a very limited amount. You could argue some sort of a smoke machine, but they didn't exist back then.
It was 1890
As long ago as the 90's XD
The 1890's!!!!!
The three ladies at the end looked pretty streamlined to me.
Yeah, them dames looked sweeter than molasses!
@@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS
Mole-Asses huhuhuhuh
Lol, this bad ass dude smoking a pipe, discovered aerodynamics with a rock and feathers tied to a reed.
Lmao.... What a chad!
I miss cars with style, color and chrome. I’m over the matte black and dull colors.
Amen. A few years ago I owned an AMC Hornet that was Maxi Blue with matching blue interior. Not only did I love the car, but other people did too!! Many commented that they sure did "remember" when interiors were color-coordinated.
Hey i have a 496 monte carlo!
You can get any custom color when you buy a Bugatti. One guy has his car made the same color as his dog.
@@PointyTailofSatan yes we'll when it goes from every automobile having more choices than I'm sure Bugatti can offer, to only being a Buggatti worth more than a million, then it's called a shit society.
No how about *well not *we'll.
I love the beginning music track. Great video!
The era of 4/40 air. Four windows down at 40 mph.
As long ago as the 90s🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
He probably meant 2090's
1890s
“The Gay 90s” that’s what it was really called btw
Basically.
Nice sir
But then Chevrolet said that they wouldn't offer overdrive because the savings in gas wouldn't pay for the cost of the unit, so while a Studebaker could get up to 30 mpg with its Borg Warner overdrive system, a Chevrolet was stuck at 19 mpg on the highway, max speeds of 60, and an engine that burned out at 100K miles, so they never realized the true potential of their streamlining.
Their calculations were probably correct. Even today if you run the numbers it takes a lot, and I mean a lot of miles to "pay for" an overdrive unit. Nobody was cruising around at 60mph at any regular interval back then, and nobody expected 100k miles between rebuilds. Everything is incremental.
@@ShainAndrews Studebaker sold plenty of overdrive units to economically minded drivers. Their cars got up to 30 MPG, and lasted longer. I bet it all added up.
@@td3993 I'm really good with math. Give me the numbers. What was the cost of the option. What was the average price of petrol? Cite a source for the MPG.
I added overdrive to my 1955 Chevy Pick-up.
Before, the engine was screaming at 60 mph; after, 70 mph, quiet as a mouse. I was a teenager; thus more concerned with going faster, not particularly noticing the 42¢ per gallon economy.
Don't know specifically about overdrive but some options that weren't available with Chevrolet were made available on the more expensive GM cars.
Lovely shape, 36 ~24~ 36!
Right on!
Back when people flaunted science
6:26 is nobody going to question how the cameraman just kind of opened the door with his mind?
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@@manitoba-op4jx Well yeah, I assumed that but it just looked funny lol
Tatra 87 is the real car that started streamlining back in the 1930s. With its V8 2,9 litre air cooled engine, delivering 85 hp, it could drive at 160 km/h (100 mph). And that with a fuel consumption of 12,5 liters per 100 km (18,8 mpg).
Even the old 48's V6 Fords were getting 21mpg, given it doesn't have nearly the hp of todays. Still pretty cool how in 70 yrs we can get a turbo 4 cyclinder to make double the horsepower and triple the mpg, probably wouldn't look as cool as the old cars tho.
@@cafenightster4548 in 1948, Ford had straight 6 and V8 motors.
@@bobbyheffley4955 Sorry, I meant I6's.
Thanks Chevrolet
Why didn't Mr. Horatio use his pipe smoke instead of feathers to demonstrate airflow?
Confounded contraptions if man was meant to fly, he’d have wings!
7:48 They blow me away👽
Who is the actor on this video?
A man with his smoke
7:56 they took MY air all right.
Fascinating! If only today's cars were as streamlined as cars of this generation. Cars would get better fuel economy, while also being able to go faster.
***** Are they?
Jason Carpp Yes. Back then engineers and designers were getting a hold of making sure the car cut relatively cleanly through the air, but unlike today, they did not really bother with making sure the air was effectively carried over the vehicle.
@@tavshedfjols Are you joking? Drag coefficiency has improved a lot from 1940's to now. When this film was made, Cd was typically around 0.5 to 0.6 and now it's commonly 0.25 to 0.3 on all passenger cars. Only 100% better on rough average.
@@manitoba-op4jx And how's that?
@@youfube- HEy man... this is no place for ur fancy sciencey stuff... man! Like, peer reviewed journals is just fake news bruh... Nobel Prizes are for wussies like Dylan
Laughs in Volvo 200
I would amagine lots of cars and planes could have gone more miles per gallon. Also I would say pollution wouldn't be bad and our oil range wouldn't have been so low. I wish we could change the past🙂
Imagine if we had 90's emission standards and automotive technology since the 30s. Probably we wouldn't need downsizing, and other crap on modern cars
@@raphaelrodrigues1645 indeed, that would be amazing.
@@raphaelrodrigues1645 or modern cars at all, thanks to a lack of need to keep changing. It is criminal to constantly change automobiles, most young kids think they kept the same bodies every decade, but that couldn't be less of what truth of any there is. Every year momentous things changed in appearance on an automobile no matter if it's Ford or Chevrolet, or Nash, DeSoto, Cadillac, Buick, Pontiac, Plymouth, Dodge, Studebaker, and even Packard going for the classy forms of the 1930-32 era of body design but with the military power engine of a 1940's automobile able to climb a staircase with ease as they were so grand at. Couldn't imagine a SUV (approximately the same size) trudging along as it's tires are reduced to sap trying to heel up stone steps.
7:56 and then airbus came
Alternative title: taking the air *and turning it into coronavirus*
So why does 90% of big rigs & all cargo boxes still look like that box, wasting fuel?
Saving money.
Oh, wait ...
The trucks are shaped to pass the air around to the back of the cargo box, the only major aerodynamic flaw is the back
@@billyray4716 YES...the tractor slopes in front
because it's behind the truck anyway
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man, those wind tunnels had no safety grates, wouldnt want to be in one of those
From Brasil
"Modern" planes, PT boats..., yet in a scant few months...set back by the shock of Pearl Harbor
As long ago as the 90s?
Did chevrolet time travel to 2041 and then recorded this with a camera from the year 1941 and then went back to the year 1941 to publish this video to America, but then a few years later someone published this video so I can post this long question in 2020 during the *coronavirus* pandemic where in the time of this comment our current U.S. president caught the *coronavirus* and is suffering from it as others are catching the *coronavirus* and getting sick and dying as I have not caught it and am still alive to post this comment which has a *very long* question so I can also demonstrate what is happening as this comment is being posted?
That is a *B I G Q U E S T I O N* with an answer coming soon
^^^Mr. Schwarzenegger says the above post was a "Most regrettable Incident"
And all that research went right out the window during the 80's when cars were boxes and looked like crap!
It's not as simple as the video claims. For example, an original design VW Beetle, designed to the principles shown, has a drag coefficient of 0.48. A Nissan Cube has a drag coefficient of 0.35. Getting rid of little air traps has a bigger effect than a large flowing shape.
@@21stcenturyfossil7 didn't matter so much anyway, a 1930 Packard, infact a 1925 Packard already exceeded 100 miles per hour. And that was elegant and very not so much the bullet expression in its variable of shaping depending on which model they are using.
No entendí jaja
sadly we are not the envy of the world anymore but trump is going to fix that right?
dream on Jim ...LMAO
The day we are no longer the envy of the world is the day our immigration issues solve themselves. They will just stop coming if that ever happens.
Nah
Love to hear your thoughts in 2021. I’ll wait.
@@jeffdrum5541 how long did you wait to make that comment?
I didn't like the guy and don't feel like there's a way any leader can make a difference in 4 years while facing soo much opposition
american cars and planes have something in common, they suck at turning.
Most automobiles throughout 1900 to 1980 ranged from 14 feet to 19. A in-between wheel base of 130 to 180. Now imagine how orbit works and you'll perhaps get smarter.
Ah yes. Amurica even in the 40s. 'MURICA
It was a great and hopeful place. I think you're making fun, but that's because you don't know any better.
@@josephgaviota they don't know anything.