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P38 ruled supreme in the Pacific. In good hand would beat anything German

All Lancasters used Packard built Merlins.

I wonder how the 43 compared to the p40b of the AVG? Black Mac was a friend.

The v12 engines of Great Britain were greatly influenced by the Curtis d12. The Allison was a fundamentally better design than the Merlin. But the merlin was more highly developed and the British secifications led to more efforts in supercharging. When looking at the r2800 how can one imgine...

Yes but the pressure ratio can be used to compare compression ratio. The it has more meaning to piston engine people.

No great Britain RR could not make enough Merlins. So an automobile company in england got the prints from RR and told RR they could not make the engine quite the same way. as the auto engines they made had closer tolerances than RRmade Merlins. I think it was Rover or maybe even Ford. When...

Oil collects. So you turn the engine by battery or apu counting the number of blades, say 16 on a Wright radial and a similar number on inverted engines. This clears the bottom cylinders of standing oil by forcing it out the exhaust. Then you start the engine. If you don't clear the engine...

carburettor cut out? google miss schillings orifice.

If the AVG had the P39 they would have done better with it using the same tactics. Like the P40 it was altitude limited by the same engine. So if the P39 had been available that would have been the plane to use and it was in the same time frame. It would be worthwhile to read the comparison...

If day fighters then it would be the 190.

Heres the deal. The most bombers shot down were English. The most successfull bomber killers were the three twin engine fighters with rada and guns pointed near vertical and pointed slightly forward.

A Mosquito as a fighter could not turn with a 190 or 109. But any mk. mossie could outrun either at any altitude. Other than specialised german night fighters it was the best nightfighter in the world. How does one classify it a as bomber? It could outperform any other 2 engine bomber in the...

I had an uncle that flew P38's in the CBI and he said they always turned the tail warning radar off because they were sitting there "whitefaced" and the thing would go off when a wingman would slide underneath.

Brown did not like the corsair at all. It is interesting the Myer of Grumman compared the P39 against the A6M and found it a better performer. But one item overlooked in his comparison was the lack of a stall warning in the Airacobra. It was a brave or panicked pilot that could turn a P39...

Something not generally known was the Tomahawks flown by the AVG had hand assembled engines. The P40's of the AVG had 1 or 2 hundred more horsepower than the P40's of the AAF at that time. In its area of operations it was the best fighter aircraft.