Heat waves of destruction?

A talk with some propulsion engineers who design the props for nuke subs could maybe tell some stories about cavitation, whereby the molecular breakdown of water [under pressure waves, not too dissimilar to combustion/quench values] carves up stainless steel propellers in ambient temps of ~ 4 degrees C..

Hey Hobot, what about a crankcase vacuum pump driven off the primary drive to reduce pumping losses?

Naw, Peel will have exhaust eductor, ie: -venture vacuum extractor with a regulating valve so no to suck oil out with the blow by excess. In real life Diana Rigg was know to suck the chrome off a trailer ball so must Ms Peel too. The exhaust will be only vent out of crank case and OIF, there will be provision of inward only vents in head and spine, hope it won't collapse the spine or suck seals inside out. I'm counting oz's as if dealing drugs to keep ahead of the torque/mass ratio of balloon tire wonders.

Fair enough, was that hard chrome[or only decorative], L.O.L. - man, she musta been in a feed lot too long to go at a mineral lick that ardently...

I saw Diana's real character and history when looking for her TV icon photo's to find such events as kicked out of a college for her "divers" lovers and recently was told No Smoking in a fancy restaurant but ignored the demand. She was the real deal and so is Ms Peel, my fantasy ride. One of the prettiest sights in the universe was finding her full frontal. Not for display here, just on Ms Peel up close to feel the heat waves...

& she played Mrs Bond opposite the Aussie Bond, George Lazenby.

Perhaps you s hould find out what was used on the P38 Lightning fighter. A friend of mine was shot out of the sky by one while flying a Stuka over the Mediterranean. It ended all his fun of dive bombing civilians with the siren going.

X2 Allison V12 turbos, which together put out about the same as a single Napier Sabre VII, so if your Luftwaffe mate had been flying a Messerschmitt or Focke-Wulf, the boot would`ve likely been on the other foot.

Ugh, staying on point and observing Brent's blue metal flake's fast idle sitting still made me realize the oil is most at risk of over heating w/o air flow most so than the engine w/o air flow, at those level of fuel burn. On say a dyno w/o air flow likely both oil and engine parts would over heat, turn to carbon and swell up or melt away.

Germans had the better hi end flight technology and chemistry too, just too little too late. I grew up around a P51 pilot and decades later knew a P38 pilot. Both had some tales to entertain. P38 pilot said he could fly so high the ski was black and the stars stood out! There wonderful plentiful articles on P38's [besides the Nazi pistol] but here's the liquid cooled frontal area advantage. So in a way the Lightening was twice the fighter a Mustang was.
http://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.org/ ... wayne.html


Now back on point I'd rather have a air cooled Corsair than a Mustang. Max speed 435 15,000 ft level and 40,000 ceiling.
The F4U-1 had a top speed of 393 m.p.h. at 25,000 ft. Later water injection was added to the radial engine, raising the top speed to 415 m.p.h.

P38 twice a P51?, No-way. As an ace [Robin Olds] once said, I often flew a P38 back from Germany on 1 engine, but I ALWAYS flew my P51 back on 1 engine...
Germans [& the casualty stats] say they`d think twice about taking on Mustangs, but P 38s.. up for it.
Having said that, my mothers uncle flew Tempests [Napier Sabre mill] & he`d take on Mustangs in a blink.

Twice a P51 only in construction but not in all operational conditions then.

from spiermore
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Ah, no. P38s were more than twice as costly to buy/operate, but significantly less combat effective [ 8th AF swapped their P 38s for Mustangs in the air superority role, P 38s were relegated to ground attack, along with most P47s, [ but P 47s were superior in this to the P38 like-wise].