Ken
> >Ken often has more to say then the rest of us. He makes us work at
> >understanding but its usually worth the effort!
Lou - well thought out comment!
> thanks for the help and others too i didnt start to learn to read
> and write till i was 24
Ah, so, now I know. I would like to comment that a couple of years back,
it was Ken who detected that I had been hit by a Trojan Horse (Virus)
which was going out with my emails. It had infected one of the list members
computers and had emailed everyone in his address book (seemingly that
was a large percentage of us). At the time I received a very well written
email from Ken telling me what the problem was and exactly where to get
the info on how to fix it. I never have worked out how come that one email
was so well written?
Regardless, we all have something to contribute to this
hobby, and as my wife says, "the internet is for everyone, regardless of
their literary skills". I regard it as a tool, not as a show case of our
educational achievements.
> wane looking at that b29 one worker told me that removed the blowers
> and
> intercoolers and that cut 2 ton off the planes wight
> and at the 7-10 k feet they fly at the blowers dont add any
> thing much any way
I can't say that I fully agree with him. Perhaps it works for them as they
have an unladen bomber which is probably also minus the weight of a lot of
WW2 radios, guns, armour etc and doesn't need the blowers for that reason?
The only reason I wasn't in a bad
accident in a Harvard (AT-6 Texan) is that the Pratt and Whitney R-1340
is a supercharged engine. The available power (and my Dad's piloting skills)
recovered a bad landing incident (sudden cross wind that grossly exceeded
the Harvard's parameters and put our left wing tip into the grass and
us headed for a berm). The New Zealand Air Force instructors that Dad was
talking to at an Airshow a few months before had emphasised that the only way
to recover a bad landing in that model Harvard was to go to emergency
power and get off the ground. They really hammered the point home.
For those into Warbirds: ours was a T-6D with the fully castoring tailwheel
that only needed 40 lbs force to unlatch, it was a VERY bad design.
After the incident above, we converted it to a Mustang type locking system.
Regards
Doug
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