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Anyone seen what does this book include within:"The Allison Engine Catalogue 1915-2007" by J. Leonard?

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That explanation does work for the major series produced ones, but even late desigs when did not really have such urgency like the F8F, F7F failed to have the level of automation that was available in ...

Just been wondering how far behind US engine makers were in introducing automatic engine controls to even ti their fighter engines. E.g. even late designs like the F8F had much higher pilot workload t ...

If I may, it seems that the injection system used in the R-3350 is/was a poor one compared to the German systems. After all, the Finnish AF which was not the most experienced on more complicated aircr ...

Again, could Bill´s "failure" be indeed related to the carburettor´s inability to work under positive pressure?

Thanks Kip! By the way, even without water recovery system, cruyising with ADI would make sense: let´s assume that the ADI would save 15% fuel. Assume a fleet of aircraft operating from an island bas ...

Well, to me eyes the many mods described by Graham´s arrticles are not simple, to say the least. Fitting a turbocharger wouldn´t be that difficult. I have been thinking that perhaps the Bendix press ...

Question: why don´t Reno people remove the engine stage supercharger altogether and thus get rid of the power eating device and replace it with pure turbocharging? In virtually all other forms of mot ...

100 PN=100 octane
130 PN=allows 30% higher IMEP than 100 PN
150 PN=allows 50% higher IMEP than 100 PN

and so on.

I beg to disagree. A condenser is a very simple device after all.

By the way, have you read William Wolf´s B-29 book? I mean that 360-page tome. Excepting a serious hiccup in the propeller section ...

Yes, the second para is correct. I disagree on the third for I don´t think the addition of ADI would make the B-29 a maintenance nightmare if it wasn´t that already!

You are not arguing:) The key point on the cruising application would have been the development of a method to recover the water by condensing it from the exhaust. Had the method been devised, it woul ...

Schauer, if you use ADI at constant rpm and MAP, the CHTs will be lower than without ADI. There is no technical reason why ADI couldn´t be used at the same boost. In fact, there were plans to use ADI ...

At 140,000 lbs or so the handbook values are 5000+ ft ground run and over 7000 ft to clear 50 ft. The Lancaster II manages (at about 70,000 TOW, practically an overload condition) to get airborne in l ...