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Skriven 2014-02-10 14:52:34 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
  Kommentar till text 12389 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
Ärende: Merlin
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 Brer Ward Dossche wrote to Brer Roy Witt about Re: Merlin:

 RW>WD>> Lancasters were fitted with Merlins ...

 RW>> No info found to support that claim.

 WD> A good, maybe unusual, site for the Lancaster is thisone:

 WD> http://www.bombercommandmuseum.ca/

I have a better source. The Mosquito also had Merlins that made 500 more
HP and only required 2 crew members. It could also carry enough bombs to
do the same job.

 WD> It's a small museum in Nanton, Alberta. Maybe an hour or two south of
 WD> Calgary. There's a whole story to it, but they have a Lancaster there
 WD> which at some point was derilict but they are restoring it to the
 WD> point that they got 2 engines working. What a roar. I visited it some
 WD> years ago and for the people passing there it is really worth your
 WD> while. However, who goes to Nanton?

Go to San Diego and visit the Aerospace Museum in Balboa Park. I can't say
for sure, but one of our BBS users in San Diego volunteered there to work
on restoring several aircraft.

 WD> The museum with several aircraft under restoration is pretty
 WD> interesting, they've got a special presentation there on the real
 WD> story behind "The Great Escape" and the destruction of Tirpitz.

 WD> Funny, it's actually the only thing really going on there and the
 WD> whole town participates.

That's something like the Admiral Nimitz museum about an hour north west
of here in Fredricksberg, TX...

 WD> You'll find all the info you want on that site.

 RW>WD>> Never heard about the Sherwood Forest oil drilling at Eakring?
 RW>WD>> Little known but the US were not sending tankers to Britain who
 RW>WD>> had all the oil they needed.

 RW>> The UK got a fair amount of oil from the Persian Gulf area and from
 RW>> Trinidad; but over half from the USA, which was a net exporter of
 RW>> oil...

 WD> The people I know claim that Britain exclusively provided for itself
 WD> as far as oil goes from the Sherwood wells.

If they had any oil on the island, I'm sure that they probably did. But
not exclusively, else why were there American oil tankers sent in convoys
to England?

 WD> Those sources run into the US DoD.

They must not be very informed then...

 RW>> My Z28 must use a minimum of 92 octane per
 RW>> factory ratings and it will run on 89, but you can't use the
 RW>> potential hp that it produces on 93 octane.

 WD> 95 is now the standard minimum rating here ... ethanol added I
 WD> believe.

I understand (Bob Bashe) that 95 is the only fuel available there. While
in NA, we have vehicles designed to run on 87, which is the norm, not the
exception. That 95 may also be why your fuel is outragiously out of kilter
with our fuel prices.

 RW>> Hitler underestimated the size of the RAF and the Luftwaffe' fool
 RW>> went along with that.

 WD> There was something else that I read about it and which also makes
 WD> sense. Due to the flying time involved an ME109 has barely 10 minutes
 WD> over the target area and then had to return or risk fuel starvation.
 WD> While the RAF had all the time they needed ... they could chase the
 WD> Germans to close to the Belgian and Dutch coast without the Germans
 WD> having the fuel to engage.

Being Germans and probably one of the smartest people on the planet, if
not the smartest; why didn't they come up with ejectable fuel tanks like
the P51s used to escort B17/29 bombers to Berlin? They could certainly fly
with the Spitfire in combat, but the overall range was abismal...


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 if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain."
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