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Thanks for a really great posting. It deservess to be preserved in some more perminant form.

Here are the particulars of the BMW IIIa six cylinder in line water cooled engine: Figures are in American units unless otherwise indicted.:

PARTICULARS OF THE B.M.W. ENGINES.

TYPE OF MOTOR ...

"A while ago I was speaking to a pilot who has some 4-cylinder Cessna thing, I changed the subject once he told me that ALL piston engined aircraft are air-cooled. I don't think people like that would ...

Thanks for the information. I will give it a try.

NACA Report 135 on this engine cites Report 1350 of the US Army Air Service Engineering Division. Does anyone know whther that is a different report and, if so, how to get acces to it? I am also in ...

Thanks Wallan. We had not seen it before. It must have been an extremely efficient engine. It held the world endurance record for awhile and the LJ-6 was touted for its range.

We are looking at a series of accidents involving Junker F-134/LJ-6 airplanes with BMW IIIa engines.* The power is given at 185 hp so these may have been derated from their WW I form. At least som ...

jrussell writes "As far as civil aircraft, I will agree unequivocaly" that liquid cooled engines were superior. Once good radial engines became available (1925-27 in the US and considerably earlier i ...

Thanks for the information. Somehow the picture of the average dilution worker curling up with a 500 page book doesn't quite fit. Still there must have been a large number of supervisors and middle ...

There is a new reprint out: Beaumont, R.A.: Aeronautical Engineering: A Practical Guide for Everyone Connected with the Aircraft Industry.

Can anyone give a quick evaluation?

As the story goes: In the spring of 1941 Lieutenant Commander John S. Thach, skipper of Fighting Three learned that his likely adversary would be the Mitsubishi A6M “Zero” that outperformed the N ...

One of the more notorious (not necessarily truthful) scandals of World War II aviation is the tale of the aborted re-engining of P-38s with Merlins. The story is that after the spectacular success o ...

Were max CHTs set to protect the valves and perhaps other parts from the direct effects of heat or were they set primarily to avoid detonation and pre-ignition?

I suppose that you have long since thought of this but The Rutledge Family web page is:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~rutledge/
The email address given for the webmaster is usrutledge@attbi.com
Perhap ...

The logic sounds right but does it take a bit of the gloss off the Rutledge legend as recited on the web:

"On May 31, 1927, Charles Lindbergh wrote a new chapter in aviation history by completing t ...