And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
F2G Super Corsair. Crashed in 2012 killing pilot Bob Odegaard. My wife's best friend was related to him. Tragic loss, he loved flying and restoring old war birds.
Imagine the income level required to buy, own, insure and maintain that monstrosity. You would need to employ half a dozen technicians at very high salaries. The hangar would cost as much as half a dozen respectable houses. The cost of that thing for one year would let me live like a king for the rest of my life.
"Don't be ridiculous! The wafer box is to be cut up and used as gasket material...." And, to be serious,...I've used sketchier shit for gasketa on higher compression engines than that. Construction paper soaked in shellac and coated with a copper gasket spray on a 14.2:1 cylinder base gasket. It lasted longer than the copper coated steel head gasket that burnt the first run every time. Apples/oranges, but never underestimate the power of powdered trees in any application.
F2G Super Corsair. Crashed in 2012 killing pilot Bob Odegaard. My wife's best friend was related to him. Tragic loss, he loved flying and restoring old war birds.
ReplyDeleteIt'll never fly, Orville.
ReplyDeleteEntia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
ReplyDelete"Don't overcomplicate it"
“corn cob” engine
ReplyDeleteMurphy's Law #33 states "The bad cylinder is never on the front row."
ReplyDeleteLook at the front spar on the airframe in the background.
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The regular Corsair was a bitch to fly, with torque and major low speed controllability issues. This modification is widow maker. Crazy dangerous.
ReplyDeleteMy stepdad flew them in Korea, told me it was his least favorite Navy plane. He had to bail out of one at Atsugi when it caught fire on approach.
DeleteImagine the income level required to buy, own, insure and maintain that monstrosity. You would need to employ half a dozen technicians at very high salaries. The hangar would cost as much as half a dozen respectable houses. The cost of that thing for one year would let me live like a king for the rest of my life.
ReplyDeleteWith that in mind, they are using a Nilla Wafer Box to hold Parts
DeleteDon't be ridiculous! The wafer box is to be cut up and used as gasket material....
Delete"Don't be ridiculous! The wafer box is to be cut up and used as gasket material...."
DeleteAnd, to be serious,...I've used sketchier shit for gasketa on higher compression engines than that. Construction paper soaked in shellac and coated with a copper gasket spray on a 14.2:1 cylinder base gasket. It lasted longer than the copper coated steel head gasket that burnt the first run every time. Apples/oranges, but never underestimate the power of powdered trees in any application.
Talk about nose heavy.
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ReplyDeleteWe couldn't get it to work in WWII so we gave them to the British. They figured it out and gave them back.
ReplyDeleteThat's just an engine with an airframe hanging off the back.
ReplyDeletewould that engine be a Pratt & Whitney 4360?
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