Author Topic: What did your city do in the war? (Read 2293 times)

Boroda · « **Reply #60 on:** August 06, 2006, 06:45:41 AM »

A story from Moscow 1941.

I was born in Leningrad, my grand-parents are from the South, Ukrainians and Don cossacks. In 1940 my Grandfather got married and moved to Moscow, Artillery college teacher. He was one of the first officers to use Guards Mortars, or RS as they said.

My grandparents lived on Begovaya street, near the hyppodrome (race track (course)). Their nearest bomb-shelter was at a Dynamo subway station.

In August 1941 nazis bombed Presnya station, Belorussian station if we speak in terms of ordinary people. Several dozen trains with artillery ammunition burned and exploded. Some shells are found several kilometers away now after 65 years. /*near Leningrad it's still no wonder when someone blows up on a land-mine when picking mushrooms*/

Ok.

Grandparents come home after an air-raid alarm is cancelled. Their house has no window-glass: 500m from a railway station that was still burning... They come to their room, the door is blown away and carefully put against the wall, and an officer sleeps at their bed... Granfather wakes him up, he salutes and says something like "Comrade senior leutenant, I saw the door blown away and came here to make sure that your posessions are not stolen". Granfather saluted and that officer left.

Great people. Horrible time. That's why we survived.

Later in September 1941 Granfather went to the Front-line with his battery of Guard Mortars (katyusha, BM-13) - Grandmother was evacuated from Msk... This is another long story of human devotion and mutual assistance....

Banzzai · « **Reply #61 on:** August 06, 2006, 02:32:14 PM »

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Originally posted by Debonair
I some highly tuned Merlins produce upwards of 4000HP. Can the Griffon make this claim?

Griffon-powered Hydroplanes

The original Budweiser used a variety of engines generally configured as a Griffon 74,
which featured the two-stage two-speed supercharger with ratios of 5.16 MS and 6.79 FS.
It used impellers of 13.4" for the first stage and 11.3" for the second stage.
In 1980, the team employed a ratio of 5.81:1 for the supercharger.
By modifying the crankshaft lubrication system and bearings, the team was able to increase the peak RPM to 4,000,
producing peak piston speeds of 4,400 ft/min and 33 power strokes/second.
By using high octane racing fuel with a rich PN of about 150, combined with ADI injection and nitrous oxide (N2O)
increased the BMEP to over 360 psi. The high BMEP combined with increased power strokes per second raised increased power to over 4,000 HP.

straffo · « **Reply #62 on:** August 06, 2006, 02:56:11 PM »

Except being bombed (and 2 times !) up to 90% ... nothing

Kurt · « **Reply #63 on:** August 06, 2006, 07:50:51 PM »

Southern California, always has been a center of aviation in this country. I couldn't list all the things we provided in WWII.

Not the least of which, the P-38.

Muroc/Edwards AFB and Rogers dry lake are the very foundation of the United States military aviation machine.

KgB · « **Reply #64 on:** August 06, 2006, 08:47:17 PM »

I grew up right between those green arrows,not sure about produsing anything tho

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Born here,they produced a lotta fuel in ww2.

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Pongo · « **Reply #65 on:** August 06, 2006, 09:28:18 PM »

Made Frigates and Corvettes,
main pacific coast base for the RCN.
Flew maritime patrol and fighter sortis,
Manned shore batteries.

Neubob · « **Reply #66 on:** August 06, 2006, 10:39:04 PM »

Hitler's armies got to within 19 miles of the city center. Ironically, as the Panzer divisions were being halted, an even bigger enemy was in his 2nd decade of occupation of the very same town.

Be would stay for 11 more years.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #67 on:** August 07, 2006, 09:01:42 AM »

I think Seattle contributed alittle bit to the war, I can't remember exactly what though....

Debonair · « **Reply #68 on:** August 07, 2006, 01:44:56 PM »

u gave Greg Boyington a job parking cars for a few months while he was waiting for the marines to call him back

Roscoroo · « **Reply #69 on:** August 07, 2006, 02:16:45 PM »

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Originally posted by Banzzai

Griffon-powered Hydroplanes

The original Budweiser used a variety of engines generally configured as a Griffon 74,
which featured the two-stage two-speed supercharger with ratios of 5.16 MS and 6.79 FS.
It used impellers of 13.4" for the first stage and 11.3" for the second stage.
In 1980, the team employed a ratio of 5.81:1 for the supercharger.
By modifying the crankshaft lubrication system and bearings, the team was able to increase the peak RPM to 4,000,
producing peak piston speeds of 4,400 ft/min and 33 power strokes/second.
By using high octane racing fuel with a rich PN of about 150, combined with ADI injection and nitrous oxide (N2O)
increased the BMEP to over 360 psi. The high BMEP combined with increased power strokes per second raised increased power to over 4,000 HP.

They were making well over 4000hp when the turboshafts came into boat racing and some of those Griffons can still make more power then the Turboshafts.

the Allisons and merlins that everyone else were running were getting out powered by the Griffons so badly that it was gonna be a matter of time befor they got shut down anyway . Thats part of the reason the jets came into play.

I have a pair of rods out of one of the actual Griffons from the '80 bud ,and Know Dave personally .I still make parts for his nostalga/limited boats .

BlueJ1 · « **Reply #70 on:** August 07, 2006, 06:02:07 PM »

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Originally posted by MrBill
Not much in my current town but in the State ...

Trinity Site, New Mexico, USA Site of first nuclear weapon test on July 16, 1945

I learned that a local buisness here helped process uranium for the above firework.

Debonair · « **Reply #71 on:** August 07, 2006, 11:55:46 PM »

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Originally posted by Pongo
Made Frigates and Corvettes,
main pacific coast base for the RCN.
Flew maritime patrol and fighter sortis,
Manned shore batteries.

I was at your air museum last year (and the Spitfire Cafe on the other side of the field).
A lot of multiengine training in your neck of the woods back then also...

...thanks for the info on the high powered Griffons, sounds like a matter of time before a Griffon driven P-51 takes over from Dago Red, Strega & Rare Bear

outbreak · « **Reply #72 on:** August 08, 2006, 12:18:38 AM »

my towns famous for makin rednecks

Roscoroo · « **Reply #73 on:** August 08, 2006, 01:28:01 AM »

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Originally posted by Debonair
I was at your air museum last year (and the Spitfire Cafe on the other side of the field).
A lot of multiengine training in your neck of the woods back then also...

...thanks for the info on the high powered Griffons, sounds like a matter of time before a Griffon driven P-51 takes over from Dago Red, Strega & Rare Bear

the griffons arnt as availiable as the merlins or the allisons .
So i doubt they'll ever get grabbed up for Air racing.

They're really rare here in Seattle and There all accounted for .

Debonair · « **Reply #74 on:** August 08, 2006, 02:28:03 PM »

Iirc Precious Metal is a Griffon driven Mustang