Recent content by rogerwilko

What was the unit cost difference?

Was there any particular durability difference between the Pratt and Whitney twin wasp 1830 and the wright cyclone 1820. Seems the 1830 would be much more expensive to manufacture considering the same horsepower output?

Those P.O.W saboteurs again.

that also makes me wonder about the guys to stole planes off of germans and flew home. bruce carr from the 354th FG and bob hoover were just a few of the airmen who swiped a german kite and flew it back home....wonder if those guys got credit for the ac?? or was it treated like a ground...

I wonder if it's one out of the Catch 22 movie?

Poor ol' Whirly. Never had a real chance!

Apparently not hard to do when they were taking off or landing.

So unfair he didn't make it through the war after bringing that back.

Tiny engines.

Someone put diesel in the fuel tanks!

Any aircraft being jumped is going to suffer?

Great!

I wonder if Eric Brown tested one? Wonder what he thought of them?

My favourite underdog plane. I don't mind revisiting. Apparently Merlins couldn't be fitted so that killed off performance improvements. I have never seen a clear concise reason why they couldn't be fitted though. Weight?

Thanks Greg. Does this apply to the P51's as well?