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HiThank you Mike - that is definitely worth bacon.
Your conclusion may well be the answer but as I read the additional material you provided, which infers that both services used NC, I wondered if this was an inter-service thing with the Navy going NC early and the Army sticking with Cordite because of India, Malaya, etc, as long as possible. Given the large volumes of ammunition imported from the US in ww2 I would expect that the Army and RAF did, in reality, use far more NC ammo than Mr Wallace indicates.
This also suggests a major difference in the way the Army and Navy stored powder or one would expect the navy to have had the same problems in hot climates. Maybe it was a simple as the stuff deteriorated in a very confined space but not in bags like used on large guns. Just a wild guess
I was also very surprised to see that they were able to recondition damaged NC powder
HiHi Mike - you obviously study weapons and I fount this earlier in the week and though you might be interested given it is an oddball one.
I don't recall the exact number, but something like 130 auto manufacturers went out of business during the Great Depression. Names like Cord, Maxwell and Rickenbacker (yes, that one).Figure in the 60's, vintage (for that day) cars would have been 50 years old at best.
In the early days of American automobiles, there were several dozen car makers over the years and there wasn't really much of a manufacturing standard like there was post-war.
So you could encounter just about anything between the teens and thirties as far as hardware was concerned.
This is a widely believed "fact", but may not be true.Packard had to make their own fasteners for the Merlin because their were no suppliers for the British spec fasteners. They would have also needed different wrenches. I don't know if that meant that two sets of wrenches were/are needed to work on a Mustang. I suspect it does.
This is a widely believed "fact", but may not be true.
See here for comments from people who were there.
A View From the Flight Line - Being a P-51 Crew Chief - Bud Anderson: To Fly and Fight
A typical flight line crew at work: the armorer is deep in the gun bay, and the crew chief appears to be washing down the engine compartment with gasoline and...toflyandfight.com
Also here for an astonishing claim from Packard in 1952
You mean the Grumman XP-50?They changed the engines completely in the P-40 and P-50
Typo thanks, I was half way to the jet age with the P-80 lolYou mean the Grumman XP-50?
The article is well worth the complete read. For instance, the syncronisation of P-37 nose guns was more difficult that other aircraft with muzzles closer to the prop. Many training P-39s had outer wing guns removed, sometimes referred to as an improvement by a certain "expert". When a P-39 blade was holed, there was also a bulge at the tip, which I assume meant the round did not go all the way through and wound up at the tip due to centrifugal force. The four P-39 wing guns, which could be recharged from the cockpit, had handles mounted on the floor. An excellent place to fumble around during combat. The armorers assigned to P-51Bs found that the star wheel from Martin B-26 turrets would augment the feeding of ammo to the .50s during combat.This is a widely believed "fact", but may not be true.
See here for comments from people who were there.
A View From the Flight Line - Being a P-51 Crew Chief - Bud Anderson: To Fly and Fight
A typical flight line crew at work: the armorer is deep in the gun bay, and the crew chief appears to be washing down the engine compartment with gasoline and...toflyandfight.com
Also here for an astonishing claim from Packard in 1952
Add P-30 and a P-50 and you will get a P-80Typo thanks, I was half way to the jet age with the P-80 lol
It's funny that a postwar jet fighter is still given the "pursuit" title. They'd come a long way from the Curtiss P-1 Hawk.Add P-30 and a P-50 and you will get a P-80
Warbird math!
Because it entered service under the USAAF. All that changed in 1947It's funny that a postwar jet fighter is still given the "pursuit" title.
And it wasnt post war, it may not have seen combat but it was in squadron service in Europe before the war ended.Because it entered service under the USAAF. All that changed in 1947
After the USAF became an independent branch of the service, they made changes to aircraft designations.It's funny that a postwar jet fighter is still given the "pursuit" title. They'd come a long way from the Curtiss P-1 Hawk.