David Rose, from San Diego, has built some extraordinary aircraft to beat speed records in its category, adapting American car engines in an incredible way in a dragster style of acceleration records.

-It is mentioned that in the interest of the Reno races, he also tried to beat the 50, 100, 500 miles in the air, etc. This chapter should be in the "Conversions of engines", from automotive to aviation, but having a name and surname, and for its originality, he deserves a separate chapter.

“David Rose's RP,4 aircraft”

-As the engine adaptation is an idea is from the designer himself, the power plant is attributed to him.

-They are two supercharged American V8 Big Block car engines, rotating at 4,800 rpm.

“The RP-4 aircraft uncovered”

-Each engine drives one of the two propellers and both are contra-rotating.

-The maximum power of this aircraft model is 5,000 hp. Which is a lot.

"Impressive appearance of the two engines in tandem"

"And the no less impressive special propellers"

"There is no doubt that the plane is very special"

-He has built another model, DR, with a single V8 car engine that gave 1,200 hp. Very refined plane.

"Another refined model by David Rose"

-It had a rear pusher engine and propeller on the tail. Quite smaller than the RP-4.

-In case you do not know what a "dragster" is, they are cars with high acceleration capacities for short distance racing and they use drogue parachutes.

-Some engines don't even have a cooling system to eliminate the weight of the water. Below we show a picture of a dragster.

"Dragster with double supercharged V8 engine, like the RP4"