Author Topic: Spitfire Mk. IXt  (Read 1106 times)

Offline Staga

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« Reply #15 on: April 23, 2001, 09:07:00 AM »
Just re-designing of reduction gears between engine and prop.
Kinda like in P-38's Allisons  

Some info about how Radial engines and reduction gears work: http://www.nomeking.com/radials.htm

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« Reply #16 on: April 25, 2001, 12:22:00 AM »
*sniff* *sniff* - definitely something fishy going on here...

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« Reply #17 on: April 25, 2001, 05:46:00 PM »
Ok staga, but those Allisons had different designations for the left and right motors, that's why I thought they might involve different processes.

OH, and the P-82 was a maintenance nightmare IIRC, did the RAF have similar difficulties in keeping the Spit IXt airworthy?

juzz, I know it sounds odd, but both the Germans and the British flew twin-plane designs in WWII.  What I find fishy is how the LW types crow about their 111Z, which was a glider tug and of which there were what, never more than a dozen? Yet here is a fighter, whose only crime is being a spitfire, and nobody has championed its cause.