Recent content by ronjon

That is great, thank you for your help! That is actually the article I was reading, but I stopped to find the mr locations after finishing part2, Technical Background. I see the answer is in part3, sigh. At least I can finish it now.

Might anyone know where I could find an overhaul, parts, maintenance, and service manual for the R2800 - and/or, frankly, any P&W documents? I did find the MM for the CA, but that seemed a bit light. The reason I ask is I read a paper written about R2800 vibrations (I’ll post, it’s a...

Wow, M! This is priceless documentation!

I saw a fromtal area comparison of the two, and while the Griffon is slightly larger, they’re pretty close. I’ll post it when I stumble back on it.

Looking at the P-38’s high altitude performance, being properly turbo- (and presumably super-) charged proves the Allison could do what the Merlin could, and it probably had a lot more room to explore and exploit its potential. The Army told Allison to either stop or not start 2nd stage...

I have, but at the time I didn’t make the connection. Willy, a warbird restoration guy, and I were chatting about the Sea Fury and Bearcat (prolly Reno related) when he surprised me with “both the Sea Fury and Bearcat weren’t just influenced by the FW-190, both aircraft took engineering and...