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That darn R2800 still brought him home. Tough airplane, tough engine, and tough pilots back then.


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I had an R-1340 pop the top off of a rocker box and one side of the plane ended up looking about like that. The plane was struggling to hold altitude, so I put it down on an old strip that we had previously used years earlier but it hadn't been mowed. The seed heads on the grass were about shoulder high, and landing through all of that headed out grass with an oily plane made the seeds stick fast. The darn thing ended up looking like the sesame seed bun on a big mac. If it had rained before I got it washed, it probably would have ended up being the worlds largest chia-pet.

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Just goes to prove the old radial engine adage: A (Insert your favorite radial engine plane name here) lands and pull up to the FBO, line guy asks the pilot what services he would like. Pilot responds "Yea, how about checking the fuel and filling up the oil tank, please.".


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I had an R-1340 pop the top off of a rocker box and one side of the plane ended up looking about like that. The plane was struggling to hold altitude, so I put it down on an old strip that we had previously used years earlier but it hadn't been mowed. The seed heads on the grass were about shoulder high, and landing through all of that headed out grass with an oily plane made the seeds stick fast. The darn thing ended up looking like the sesame seed bun on a big mac. If it had rained before I got it washed, it probably would have ended up being the worlds largest chia-pet.


Winner!

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If they ever changed the oil it would be easier to see through clean opaque oil rather than that stuff.
SOP back then was to fill the oil tank to overflowing and throw the cap n.
In WWII photos of bases the oil spots where planes park weren't just from the engines but from the overflow scuppers on the oil tanks when they were filled.
WWII Manual for the T-6/SNJ instructed to fill oil tank to overflow. No dipstick was used nor required.
Later they used a dipstick and when North American Aviation got the Standard Type Certificate issued in 1946 a Dipstick had to be made and installed.

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I didn't appreciate how HUGE a P-47 is until I saw one in person at Planes of Fame. GIGANTIC airplane, GIGANTIC propeller... :bugeye:

I'm stunned it flew, compared to the small and smooth lines of a P-51....



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I didn't appreciate how HUGE a P-47 is until I saw one in person at Planes of Fame. GIGANTIC airplane, GIGANTIC propeller... :bugeye:

I'm stunned it flew, compared to the small and smooth lines of a P-51....



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Huge and Heavy!
I worked on the P-47G at POF when I was 17 YO back in the later 70s.
And they Launched them off Carriers using Catapults to deliver to units in the SWP. All in a days work for them.

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About 10,000# dry weight for the Jug vs 7,000 for the Mustang. But the Jug had 2,000 HP and the Mustang 1,500 (roughly) AND the Bearcat had the same engine as the Jug and weighed the same as the Mustang. Which is why, down at the old CAF headquarters in Harlingen, the Bearcat was known as the monster that eats Mustangs.


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I didn't appreciate how HUGE a P-47 is until I saw one in person at Planes of Fame. GIGANTIC airplane, GIGANTIC propeller... :bugeye:

I'm stunned it flew, compared to the small and smooth lines of a P-51....



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Read Thunderbolt! by Robert S. Johnson. GREAT book.

He writes about when the Yanks first brought the 'Bolt to England, the Spit and Hurricane pilots thought they were nuts for taking that beast into combat against half-size 109's.


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I read the book back in the 70's. I remember the story he told of when he was flying tail end Charlie he was jumped from above and shot up. he was covered with oil and thought the airplane was done for. He tried to bail out but the canopy was jammed from the cannon hits, he headed back home hoping he could make it over the channel. On the way back to England he was jumped by another (can't remember if it was a 109 or a 190). The German just sat behind him and emptied his guns. When he ran out of ammo - Johnston assumed he was already out of cannon ammo when he began shooting at him - He pulled alongside, lifted his goggles, looked at him, shook his head and waved goodbye.


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