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Hughlysses
| | Posted on Monday, May 09, 2011 - 12:09 pm: | 
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Here's a photo of the turbocharger from a P-38:
These things are pretty massive. IIRC, the normal exhaust path is in through the flange at the right and out the top of the thing through what appear to be exposed turbine blades. The flange at the rear connected to a waste gate to control the boost.
(edit- pic fixed)
(Message edited by Hughlysses on May 09, 2011) |
Cpeg
| | Posted on Monday, May 09, 2011 - 03:06 pm: |
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wonder if that could be mounted to my ULY
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Crusty
| | Posted on Monday, May 09, 2011 - 03:43 pm: |
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That little red X in a white box? Why not? I bet you could put a bunch on them on your Uly. |
Birdy
| | Posted on Monday, May 09, 2011 - 04:49 pm: |
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Biggest problem on the earlier P38 (before the "J" models) was with the plumbing for the intercooler. It run through the leading edge of the wing. Leaks were common and battle damage or a good backfire and you lost power if not the turbo.
There's a very good book by Martin Caidin, Fork Tailed Devil: The P-38. Look it up well worth the trouble to find |
Ltbuell
| | Posted on Monday, May 09, 2011 - 05:39 pm: |
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Last weekend,rode the X-1 around Puget Sound,from Bremerton to Boeing Field,and saw a B-17g"Libety Belle" and a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk flying..doing ride(too rich for my pocket book)..GAWD,I LOVE THE SOUNDS AND THE SIGHTS OF THOSE WARBIRDS!!!!!One of my uncle's,who's still alive and in good shape,was a B-17 CO during WW2 and flew out of Foggia,Italy(the 97th Bomb Group)and has told me many a stories of those days..some good,and some not....you can tell just by looking in their eyes and listening to HOW they tell "it".....There is the Museum of Flight at Boeing Field here and it is always a real treat to see the inside over and over again(did this time as well,never get bored with it for sure..love that kind of stuff)..Yup,that generation"went in as kids an came out men"..on the steepest edge of the learning curve imagineable..remember,they didn't have any manual on how to do,they had to do a lot of improv and "on the fly" things.I call those folks"pages of history" as when one passes,it a page out of the book and when the very last one is gone,and gone for good,thats it..all thats left is the cover...so i always make it a point to thank them for what they did and ALWAYS,ALWAYS listen to what they did...cuz no two are alike,even if two or more were in the same battle/fight,etc.Love this kind of history and info that we all can put forth for others to enlighten on.
Gregtonn.....been to the Reno Air Races several times when i use to live at Lake Tahoe and before living there as well.Spent many a summers up there at my grandparents cabins at South Shore and they use to have an annual air show at the Truckee Airport...They had at one time i was there,6-7 P-51's,several Hawker Sea Furies and quite a few AT-6's..they got all of them up for a formation fly over and it was something that i will never,ever forget the sight nor THE SOUND(if you have heard one .....multiply that quite a bit).Got so many photos from so many air shows.... |
Ltbuell
| | Posted on Monday, May 09, 2011 - 05:48 pm: |
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..Oh yeah..almost forgot.Saw on the news that Payne Field(Puget Sound,WA area)got a Folke Wolf FW-190 and said they intend to have it flying about the end of June this year..that will be something to hear and see as most of them were shot up/destroyed at the end of the war or was used for tow targets and few are static museum pieces.I've heard an ME-109 and it sounds odd sounding(not your typical RR Merlin type but still cool as heck to hear)..Def will want to go see that fly...... |
Birdy
| | Posted on Monday, May 09, 2011 - 06:12 pm: |
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I'd love to stand here!
F7F Tigercat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzH3sddm3cY&feature =related |
Ltbuell
| | Posted on Monday, May 09, 2011 - 06:14 pm: |
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Birdy....the pilots also prayed that on take offs that neither engine would malfunction..cuz it was instant pitch over and thats all she wrote as it did happen an worried the pilots..lost pilots due to that situation.What also was sad to the end of the P-38s in the Philippines was they took all of them,with a bulldozer and a cable attached to the plane's fuselage...i even hated seeing pics of it and reading about it and it was verified by vets who saw it happen,flipping perfectly good planes on their backside(upside down) and bulldozing them into a ravine near the airfield and burying them!!!!!!!!I even got info from someone who's Philippino and a relative who knows where they are and is tight lipped about it(he saw what happened at the end of the war)...still what a shame to the demise of a perfectly flying aircraft and expecially the P-38...sad death so to speak..To bad that they could of taken the wings off(just outboard of the engines as they shipped them out to the Pacific AND the Atlantic parts of the war)and ship them back to the States.I know...too much time and trouble and such but wow,think how many of them WOULD still be up an flyin'.....makes one wonder.....
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Xl1200r
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - 10:14 am: |
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Lt - so many of these planes see this fate... I'm sure it was hard to justify the cost to get them back AND to take care of them in the states, and selling them would likely be more of a hassle, worrying about technology getting in the wrong hands, etc. At least we still have a few examples to drool over (I love p-38s as well). |
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