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On 18 Oct, 00:51, Dan Nafe wrote: In article . com, Eunometic wrote: The modification would have required a lengtened nose to and additional radiator area to deal with the extra head and to dump heat from the intercooler. Liquid cooling an aircraft engine is like air cooling a submarine engine... What has liquid cooled engines to do with intercoolers? And if liquid cooled engines are so bad why did every airforce want liquid cooled engines for their fighters in WW2 (except the USN)? some may have not had them in enough numbers (Italy, Japan) but they wanted them. Well, "every airforce" would seem something of an exaggeration. The Soviet La-5FNs and La-7s, the US P-47s, the radial-engined German Fw 190s, and the Japanese Ki-84s, Ki-100s, and N1K2-Js were certainly more than satisfactory fighters for their respective air forces. The British seemed to go mostly with inline liquid cooled engines for their fighters but even there, the post-war Sea Fury (arguably the best piston-engined fighter ever) provides an obvious exception. Cheers, |
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