Recent content by larrymc

Nice selection. I think I see a few that I don't have. For background: During the war years, McGraw-Hill as part of their war effort abstracted published material from Aviation magazine and printed it in what became a series of Aviation's Sketchbook of Design Detail looseleaf collections. Their...

Mea culpa. Didn't read my file browser carefully enough. The Design Analysis was in the October, 1943, issue of Aviation.

Fleetwings built the BT-12 Sophomore stainless-steel trainer. Acquired by Kaiser in 1943. Eaton records show 24 delivered. Aviation magazine did one of their Design Analysis articles on the BT-12 in June, 1942. Aviation magazines are available at the Internet Archive.

From Allied Aircraft Piston Engines of World War II, by Graham White (SAE Press): V-1650-1 used in P-40F, Kittyhawk II, Lancaster III (as Merlin 28); Canadian Hurricane, Kittyhawk II, P-40F (as Merlin 29); Canadian Mosquito XX, Australian Mosquito 40, P-40F/L (as Merlin 31, 33 [same as Merlin...

This table may help a bit. It does not specify time delay or depth of penetration before detonation, so YMMV.

Avialogs lists an E&M manual for the G-21A.

White's Allied Aircraft Piston Engines of World War II (SAE Press) lists V1710-83 as used on Bell P-39L/M/N/Q and -85 used on P-39M/N/Q (page 383) The -83 is described as "similar to -63 except supercharger gear ratio and equipped with automatic boost control." The -85 is described as "similar...

legendsintheirowntime.com/LiTOT/Other/B32_index.html has a couple of contemporary magazine articles on the Dominator. There are a couple of photos.

If you mine down from LiTOT: A-20 index page you should find a few mentions. There are a couple of books on night fighters, mostly focused on P-61, that have some discussion on P-70 activities, but I don't own any, so can't make specific recommendations.