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Cool engine noises, I'm far more a fan of the P47's R2800.  And a reminder of just how big the P-47 really was.

 

 

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Ah..... the sound of seducing a round engine into running!

 

I don't know who wrote this:

 

Dedicated To All Who Flew Behind Round Engines

We gotta get rid of those turbines, they’re ruining aviation and our hearing…

 

A turbine is too simple-minded, it has no mystery. The air travels through it in a straight line and doesn’t pick up any of the pungent fragrance of engine oil or pilot sweat.

 

Anybody can start a turbine. You just need to move a switch from “OFF” to “START” and then remember to move it back to “ON” after a while. My PC is harder to start.

 

Cranking a round engine requires skill, finesse, and style. You have to seduce it into starting. It’s like waking up a horny mistress. On some planes, the pilots aren’t even allowed to do it…

 

Turbines start by whining for a while, then give a lady-like poof and start whining a little louder.

 

Round engines give a satisfying rattle-rattle, click-click, BANG, more rattles, another BANG, a big macho fart or two, more clicks, a lot more smoke, and finally a serious low pitched roar. We like that. It’s a GUY thing…

 

When you start a round engine, your mind is engaged and you can concentrate on the flight ahead.

Starting a turbine is like flicking on a ceiling fan: Useful, but, hardly exciting.

 

When you have started his round engine successfully your crew chief looks up at you like he’d let you kiss his girl too!

 

Turbines don’t break or catch fire often enough, leading to aircrew boredom, complacency, and inattention. A round engine at speed looks and sounds like it’s going to blow any minute. This helps concentrate the mind! Turbines don’t have enough control levers or gauges to keep a pilot’s attention. There’s nothing to fiddle with during long flights.

 

Turbines smell like a Boy Scout camp full of Coleman Lamps. Round engines smell like God intended machines to smell.

 

Pass this on to an old WWII pilot (or his son who flew them in Vietnam) in remembrance of that “Greatest Generation.”

 

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9 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Did multiengine planes have radials?

 

Of course!  Most of 'em, actually, "back in the day."  ^_^

 

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4 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Did multiengine planes have radials?

Many do as shown above.  One example, the F7’s are basically the navy version of a P-38 so it has radials that are not forced induction. Ww2 air museum in Colorado Springs has two.  They also have a P38, P47, B25, plus others.  All in flying condition. 

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15 hours ago, Still hand Bill said:

Many do as shown above.  One example, the F7’s are basically the navy version of a P-38 so it has radials that are not forced induction. Ww2 air museum in Colorado Springs has two.  They also have a P38, P47, B25, plus others.  All in flying condition. 

F7F is very sexy. Too bad they were late for WWII combat. 


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16 hours ago, Still hand Bill said:

Many do as shown above.  One example, the F7’s are basically the navy version of a P-38 so it has radials that are not forced induction. Ww2 air museum in Colorado Springs has two.  They also have a P38, P47, B25, plus others.  All in flying condition. 

Seems to me the F7 is more of a Navy version of a P61 than a P38.

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On 1/30/2023 at 7:28 PM, Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 said:

Did they eventually get them started? 

Yes they did! The frame rate of the video makes it look like they are not turning the props. Watch the exhaust. Then the planes taxi out under their own power.

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On 1/30/2023 at 2:01 AM, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Did multiengine planes have radials?

Many if not most US manufactured AC of that time frame had radial engines. Those same radial engines were also used in a lot of WWII tanks.

 

Almost all British AC of the same time period used inline engines like the Merlin

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