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From: (ArtKramr)
Date: 9/12/2004 7:13 PM Central Daylight Time Message-id: Subject: This NG is turning From: "Jack G" Date: 9/12/2004 5:07 PM Pacific Standard Time Message-id: Ow51d.1488$bj2.572@trnddc08 "ArtKramr" wrote in message ... Subject: This NG is turning From: "Jack G" Date: 9/12/2004 4:48 PM Pacific Standard Time Message-id: Cf51d.1487$bj2.680@trnddc08 Are those percentages derived from actual numbers or just crude estimates? If you can show the numbers used in your calculations I'll believe you. Otherwise this gets the same regard as the other drivel you post here. Jack G. Speaking of drivel would you tell us all about your combat experiences? Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer See - more drivel from Art. He just can't help it! Jack G. Neocons never fight. Arthur Kramer And you are a liar, so what's your point? Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired |
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Rich Air down at Miami Intl was flying C46s out to the BWI - don't
know if they're still using them but it was ideal for that run. Part of my practical for my A&P was on one of Rich's R2800s. Walt BJ |
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Yes, I had about a thousand hours or so in C-46s, most in the
left seat. I have about 800 hours in the R5C-1, which is the PROPER name of that aircraft. (:-)) The Marine Corps had two squadrons of them (VMR 153 and VMR 252) at Cherry Point from the end of WW II till about 1953, when they were replaced with R4Q-2s (which the Air Force mistakenly called the C-119). I believe the Marines flew them in the Pacific during WW II, but I was in high school then, so I'm not sure. BTW, Tyrone Power was a pilot in VMR 252 in the Pacific. Ablout half of our airplanes were unpainted, the other half were blue. But where the blue paint had worn off, there was olive-drab paint underneath, so I always assumed the Navy got those airplanes and gave them to the Marines, after the Army wore them out. Needless to say, it required a bit more run length for T/Os and landings. Although half a century has passed since I flew one, I think we operated them in and out of 3,000 foot strips. In the air, unless the hydraulic control boosters were operable, it handled about like what I imagine picking up a horse one handed might be. IIRC, the R5C-1 was the equivalent of the C46a, and had no hydraulic boost. It was heavy on the controls, but not too bad; it was a lot easier to fly than the PB4Y-2 (single-finned B-24) I had flown before. I wonder if any of them are still flying - the last one I heard of was around 5 years back. I saw one being fully refurbished in Red Deer, Alberta, about 1995. Later I saw several at Fairbanks, Alaska. They fly supplies to the many villages unreachable except by air. The engines are a tad more complex than the R-1280s PW R-2800s. Hell of a good engine. The Curtiss Electric props were troublesome, though. vince norris |
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ubject: C-46 -was- This NG is turning
From: vincent p. norris Date: 9/14/2004 6:12 PM Pac PW R-2800s. Hell of a good engine. The Curtiss Electric props were troublesome, though. vince norris Yeah. The same with the B-26 Marauders.If a runaway prop threw a blade there was always a chance it could behead a pilot. The props were in perfect line with the cockpit.Luckily that rarely happened. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer |
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While I've never been a member of an aircrew, I cannot help but marvel
at the longevity of some aircraft designs. It's really hard to think of the Gooney Bird or the Buff, and many others, as soulless. |
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"Howard Berkowitz" wrote in message ... As usual you are wrong. The Brits had the Sopwith triplane. Snoopy was a Brit? Doesn't Snoopy fly a Camel? |
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vincent p. norris wrote:
PW R-2800s. Hell of a good engine. The Curtiss Electric props were troublesome, though. The early ones also had electric fuel pumps that had a bad tendency to go BOOM from time to time. Not all C-46s lost over the Hump flew into the mountainside. -- Mortimer Schnerd, RN http://www.mortimerschnerd.com |
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