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VLVMA СПРАВОЧНИК ПО АВИАЦИОННЫМ МОТОРАМ 1943.djvu

I know how cold in Russia. In my opinion, winter in Russia is the most pleasant and interesting time of the year. :) Water in the carburetor is a common phenomenon and all have suffered as a disease as engines, including the USSR.

In the winter of 1942 near Stalingrad it was even colder) The water left in the carburettors froze and made the carburetors crack. By the way, I also learned that in the USSR the hurricane was reworked for flights on ordinary water, rather than ethylene glycol

in general, I read about the use of Merlin in the Hurricane in the USSR and most of the claiming boiled down to a carburetor that was not suitable for frosts at -25 ° C

Tell me, what methods of steel production were in the 30's and 40's in Britain?

Hi people! I had a dispute with a friend: he claims that Merlin had poor-quality steel. I know that RR used the mark steel KE.965 for valves, but I do not know how this circumstance is with this industry. If there are people here who are familiar with Merlin or how good is British steel in the...