Liberals Ignore The Wright Brothers

I thought it was great except for two glaring errors. In one sentence he talks
about the tendency of the big radials to "stall without warning"

I was too young for WW II, but a few years later I spent some 800
hours sitting between two PW R-2800s, the "big radial" of WW II, and
I never had one "stall," or quit for any reason other than I shut it
down.

I did have one "blow a jug" but it I could still get 36 inches of MP
and 2400 RPM, which we considered "climbing power."

Some, such as in P-47s on strafing missions, took a lot more damage
than that but kept running.

A hell of a good engine!

vince norris

Stalling was a lot more likely to happen, at least before computer
controlled autos came along, when the engine was just started and still
cold; but cold (and perhaps misadjusted) engines were also prone to
stumble, sputter, and quit on their own (while the driver pushed and
yanked on the choke knob) without any load applied, just out of
orneriness.

Right. And that's what I meant by a stall. (It still does happen,
though without the choke knob dance.) The engine stalled, Ma! Of
course it did. Webster's Collegiate Dictionary 10th Edition agrees.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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