Iused to have a buddy in the drag-racing business who claimed that given enough horsepower, you could push a Peterbilt through the Mach in a quarter mile. That's perhaps a little extreme, but there's no question horsepower solves (and creates) a number of problems associated with motorcycles, cars, boats and airplanes. Back in the '60s and 70s, I watched Lyle Shelton build his surplus F8F Bearcat race plane Rare Bear in the hangar next to mine at Compton, Calif. There was no question that more power was high on the list of gotta-haves.
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