Recent content by Lyall

I'm surprised that no mentions the Czar having placed the Russian fleet in the Atlantic to deal with the British fleet if they decided on war.

I believe that was in "Flight Journal" where he was a regular contributor, Corky was an excellent writer.

Kelly Johnson considered what he was doing an air superiority fighter not a point defense interceptor. The feedback he got from his Korea trip was that pilots wanted more acceleration, speed, and climb capability. I think Grabreski was the guy who complained about the lead computing sight in the...

It didn't have a exhaust gas driven turbocharger like the P-38/P-47. It had a variable speed (Auxiliary) impeller hydraulically powered off the engine feeding into the carb then the first stage supercharger. So it wasn't a fixed two system as on the "B". No intercooler system but a cold ram...

40,000 feet. With the P-82B its service ceiling was suppose to be 41,600 feet with Merlin's and the "G" was 38,900 feet with the pickle and the Allison's. I had thought that Allison engine in the F-82 was rated at 1500hp-1600hp for years because of the books of Bowers & Wagner. Then in 1981 I...

That Allison in the later F-82 is already a high altitude engine plus it has about 2250 hp. They had second stage mechanical supercharging plus water injection which was rarely ever used.

P-47N vs P-51H By the time the P-47N entered service, was it just overpriced and superfluous compared to the P-51, and the P-51H in particular? Was it really necessary at that point? A wet-winged P-47 was really needed years earlier. What was missed here was that P-47 production was on...