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on: 10-08-2002
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A-10 Warthog |
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| #41 |
10-08-2002 @ 07:49:55 PM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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Some of those huge air raid sirens they'd blast in big cities in the 50's were actualy powered by Chrysler Hemi engines... and some produced DB levels so high, sheets of paper placed over the open end of the siren would SINGE from the heat of the air compression... crazy....
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| #42 |
10-08-2002 @ 07:50:42 PM |
| Posted By : comradesampo |
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#39, I'm not sure about the biggest but it was definitely very, very big. 300+ foot wingspan.
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| #43 |
10-08-2002 @ 07:51:23 PM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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Biggest prop driven at any rate... she was from the last generation of piston powered bombers I think
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| #44 |
10-08-2002 @ 07:51:37 PM |
| Posted By : TinIndian |
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I've seen a P-51 scream in at treetop level. I know damn well how we won the war. =)
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| #45 |
10-08-2002 @ 07:52:13 PM |
| Posted By : comradesampo |
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#43, Half-prop, half-jet, actually. Something like six prop engines and four jet engines.
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| #46 |
10-08-2002 @ 07:52:24 PM |
| Posted By : Skid |
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#39, I just looked it up. It's the biggest prop plane the US ever built....the propellers were on the back of the wings (!).
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| #47 |
10-08-2002 @ 07:52:38 PM |
| Posted By : fordtacomaz |
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#40...yes i have stood next to one while it was starting. its all like chugga chugga chugga BAM BAM BAM and then it growls to life slowly and very noisy-like...lol. they had an He-111 parked next to it at the time...
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| #48 |
10-08-2002 @ 07:53:24 PM |
| Posted By : TinIndian |
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#41 Were Hemis around that early? Cuz I think that's what the monster 16cyl in the P-47 prototype was, but I'm not sure. I'll have to look it up.
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| #50 |
10-08-2002 @ 07:54:06 PM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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#48, Hemis were introduced in the 50's for cars, but were discontinued in favor of wedge head engines and did not return untill the late 60's
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| #51 |
10-08-2002 @ 07:55:31 PM |
| Posted By : TinIndian |
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#47 I love it. I could be around 'em all day. The He-111 was pretty bad-ass in it's own right, but I like the P-61 Black Widow better. As far as Germans go, the Stuka and the Fw-190 are my favorites.
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| #52 |
10-08-2002 @ 07:56:21 PM |
| Posted By : comradesampo |
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#49, Speaking of pushers, there was a very odd British pusher-configuration two-seater fighter in WWI called the "Fee" (forgotten its official name, unfortunately). Just about the ugliest thing you'll ever see and a very, very odd bird.
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| #53 |
10-08-2002 @ 07:56:23 PM |
| Posted By : Skid |
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Well, that was the CHRYSLER Hemi, other companies have used hemi-head engines. The BMW Isetta had a Hemi in it, no joke.
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| #54 |
10-08-2002 @ 07:57:08 PM |
| Posted By : fordtacomaz |
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#44 my uncle was out at lake Mead one time and there were these buzzards just kind of flying over head and then all of a sudden they darted to the sides. then he heard this growl kind of thing then VROOOM a P-51 was about 50 above the water at full speed. it knocked him off his feet when the air hit him. the plane then pulled into a straight up dive into a cloud.
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| #55 |
10-08-2002 @ 07:57:13 PM |
| Posted By : TinIndian |
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#50 I thnik the 16cyl. was an early version. I have to look it up one of these days. I know Fordtacomaz'll get a kick outta it.
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| #57 |
10-08-2002 @ 07:57:52 PM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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#53, Didn't know that, but I think Tin's question was did Hemi engines exsist in the 50's? The answer is yes...
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| #58 |
10-08-2002 @ 07:59:13 PM |
| Posted By : Skid |
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I don't know what the first Hemi was, but I believe Chrysler introduced theirs in 1951. That would have been a 301 Hemi. I'm not real sure on that, though.
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| #59 |
10-08-2002 @ 07:59:16 PM |
| Posted By : fordtacomaz |
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#51...did you know that the Stuka's whistled when they went into a dive? it was because of...i think it had something to do with a mechanical thing that helped out the oil do something. but yeah thats how you could tell they were coming.
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| #60 |
10-08-2002 @ 08:00:19 PM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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#59, They had a natural whistle, and the Pilots added tubes to the wings that made it louder, so that it would become just as mutch a terror weapon as a tactical one....
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