Thanks for more good content

Yall r amazing...looks like so much fun

Thanks Rob, that was a great one.

You forgot to point out that the engines on the other wing are left cyclones.

Look up history of tha 50 mission crush hat using this. Pretty accurate explanation from what I was told by my father... 2nd-lt-robert-l-westholm-it-began-with-a-hat. I am heading to San Diego tomorrow to visit a son there. Not likely to have time to go to Palm Springs, but that would be a great trip...

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I think we l Ioss a B17 a year ago that the Dallas air show.

The flaps that are around the engines are for a cooling they can be open and closed to regulate the engine temperature.

@Rayo_Rob_No.17

3 ай бұрын

oh right! Yeah, I wasn't sure what my buddy was talking about, he was addressing the fins on the pistons and I thought he was talking about the cowl flaps. LoL But, yes, you're correct, they were for cooling, not air brakes. ;)

@wilco3588

3 ай бұрын

I actually got a chance to work on a version of one of those engines Shvetsov ASh-62. It was in a Russian AN2 biplane they built a version of the right cyclone radial 1820. Quiet an airplane world's largest single-engine production biplane. With a thousand horsepower it gets your attention!

@Rayo_Rob_No.17

3 ай бұрын

@@wilco3588 oh yes, those are unique aircraft! I saw one at an airshow...something else! And to my recollection, they were still being manufactured into the 1990s?

@wilco3588

3 ай бұрын

Yes possibly still in North Korea! it's an interesting airplane to fly.