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A speed record of 103 years has been broken. With a steam car:

http://newslite.tv/2009/08/26/steam-car ... aks-s.html

Has anyone succeeded in making a steam plane recently?

A speed record of 103 years has been broken. With a steam car:

http://newslite.tv/2009/08/26/steam-car ... aks-s.html

Has anyone succeeded in making a steam plane recently?

Depends if you regard 1933 as recent

Matt

Has anyone succeeded in making a steam plane recently?

Don't know of any recent full-sized aircraft. One of our model club members built & flew a steam-powered model aircraft a few years ago. http://www.flysteam.co.uk/recent.htm

It was featured in the last TV series that Fred Dibnah made before he died.