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.
Engine: Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp.2805 Cubic Inches, 2400 H.P Used in the F4U Corsair, Grumman F6F Hellcat, the A-26 Invader, and the P-61 Black Widow. Can be argued that it was the best of all the WW2 Radial Engines. Not The Biggest, or most horsepower, but the best all around engine.
It brought my dad back. He arrived late in the ETO, so ended up as part of the occupation until it was his turn to come home. They blew their planes up when they left.
"They blew their planes up when they left." - sounds just like what that idiot Milley (or was it doofus Austin?) said about Afghanistan equipment left behind - the cost to bring it back prohibitive? Gee - ya think the idiotic military procedures required to prepare the equipment to be brought back might be slightly overdone?
P47 Thunderbolt ? When Dad was a MP in Guam right after WWII, he saw a lot of those on the other side of the fence. He was 17 years old.
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Like a locomotive blasting thru the sky, with 8 .50 cal guns.
ReplyDeleteEngine: Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp.2805 Cubic Inches, 2400 H.P
ReplyDeleteUsed in the F4U Corsair, Grumman F6F Hellcat, the A-26 Invader, and the P-61 Black Widow. Can be argued that it was the best of all the WW2 Radial Engines. Not The Biggest, or most horsepower, but the best all around engine.
It could take a beating so its told and keep running.
ReplyDeleteThe plane was literally built around the engine, turbocharger, intercooler and ducting.
ReplyDeleteB26 marauder. c46 also
ReplyDeleteThere’s a tube of starting one of those beasts. Using a cartridge.
ReplyDeleteIt brought my dad back. He arrived late in the ETO, so ended up as part of the occupation until it was his turn to come home. They blew their planes up when they left.
ReplyDelete"They blew their planes up when they left." - sounds just like what that idiot Milley (or was it doofus Austin?) said about Afghanistan equipment left behind - the cost to bring it back prohibitive? Gee - ya think the idiotic military procedures required to prepare the equipment to be brought back might be slightly overdone?
ReplyDeleteGoogle "Million Dollar Point". And weep.
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