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"Gord Beaman" ) writes: "John Keeney" wrote: The Neptune came in multiple flavors: P2V-1, P2V-3 and P2V-5 were twins with various flavors of R-3350s. The P2V-7 on the other hand had a pair of J34s to go along with its flavor of R-3350s. If you start talking foreign version, the Japanese even had a turbo prop version. I don't have the production figures handy to check the statement that "most" had four engines. Well, that was just off the top of my head John...seeing as how there seemed to be many more -7's around than earlier marks and they all seemed to have the jets...matter of fact it was so widely believed that when some stranger at a flea market remarked in my hearing range that the model P2V-7 he was looking at was a fake because it had no jets I had to correct him. The argument got quite heated and ended when I bet him (in a firm voice) $100.00 (and produced it) that the RCAF had flown the P2V-7 like that for awhile. (The fact that I have about 100 hours on them helped my confidence) He'll likely be more careful about loud public statements in future... It's how we learn, I guess. A lot of P2V-5s had the jets, too. I have a P2V-5/P-2E Natops Manual kicking around here, and the jets are definitely there. In fact, there are no takeoff distance charts for recip-only operation - the jets were to be used on every takeoff, I guess. (Although, being J34s, they really don't contribute all that much - both jeta at 100 kts would give you about 1800 HP, or half an engine's worth of thrust. Still, there's no power like Excess Power. -- Pete Stickney A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures. -- Daniel Webster |
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