Yes , they must have not been very reliable , or the maintenance of the SC
was too much , because evry remaining P-38 that I have seen that is still
flying has had them removed .
At 02:44 PM 12/7/1998 -0500, you wrote:
>Ahhhh... Not really... They used a hybrid called TurboSuperchargers
>built especially for the Allison engines. They could also be found in
>the B-17,B-24 and B-29 bombers. Pretty neat setup on the radial engines.
>Talk about plumbing!
>>They also used Superchargers , a la P-38
>
>At 01:40 PM 12/7/1998 -0500, you wrote:
>>>Both the Axis and the Allies used nitrous quite successfully in their
>aircraft, mostly for high altitude operation. The higher you >>go, the
>less dense the air is, and the engine starts to run really rich. Nitrous
>Oxide was a way to maintain a nice dense oxygen >>content. There were
>some aircraft that would run off nitrous for a half an hour at a time!
>Today, turbochargers are used >>instead, although nitrous is still used
>occasionally. There is a Formula One racer (which uses nitrous)
>sponsored by Shell >>named Pushy Galore that was purpose built to break
>5 specific records (mostly time to climb). (It has broken all 5 records,
>>>and was retired >this year.)
>>>Speaking of W.W.II and nitrous, an interesting fact is that its
>benefits to aircraft engines were discovered and developed
>>>independently by both the Nazis and the British. (It was considered
>top secret and both sides were careful to keep the info to >>themselves
>>Hmmmm... Interesting... From with I have seen both the Allied and Axis
>used water and methanol mixtures to achieve what is >called War
>Emergency Power, and it depended on what aircraft it was used on. If
>memory serves me right almost all naval >aircraft from the F6F Hellcat
>on to the F9F Tigercat, and on Army Air Corps the P40,P51 and the P38
>(with TSC's) had it. >The Jap Zero and Zeke both had it as well as the
>Me109 and FW190's
>
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