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Offline Charge

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Re: Good 109E article
« Reply #120 on: November 06, 2009, 03:20:16 AM »
Ok, "Kaltstart" i.e. 15% gasoline in engine oil which vaporized quite quickly when the engine was running. However, it was prohibited to put any load on the engine during warm-up or the engine would seize-up. Once Rudel was in such a hurry that he didn't have time to wait sufficiently and he ended up ditching a FW190 due to engine failure.  :P

I'm not sure who invented this in the first place but I have read that Germans learned it from Russians.

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Re: Good 109E article
« Reply #121 on: November 06, 2009, 04:07:50 AM »
Quote from: Charge on November 06, 2009, 03:20:16 AM
I'm not sure who invented this in the first place but I have read that Germans learned it from Russians.

Henry Ford 1922 and William Parrish discovered how to recover the gasoline from oil and return it to the intake for combustion that same year.
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Re: Good 109E article
« Reply #122 on: November 06, 2009, 04:31:53 AM »
Jesus Christ...
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Re: Good 109E article
« Reply #123 on: November 06, 2009, 05:47:42 AM »
Quote from: Charge on November 06, 2009, 03:20:16 AM
Ok, "Kaltstart" i.e. 15% gasoline in engine oil which vaporized quite quickly when the engine was running. However, it was prohibited to put any load on the engine during warm-up or the engine would seize-up. Once Rudel was in such a hurry that he didn't have time to wait sufficiently and he ended up ditching a FW190 due to engine failure.  :P

I'm not sure who invented this in the first place but I have read that Germans learned it from Russians.

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You're the boss ;)
Anyway, AFAIK it was learned from the Russians who kept flying when the Germans could not. Rall's unit in fact.
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Re: Good 109E article
« Reply #124 on: November 06, 2009, 06:08:59 AM »
BTW the DB's joint to engine firewall looks something like a "ball joint" type which was used in other planes as well, e.g. in JU88 to hold the wings in the fuselage. I'll see if I have a picture of it somewhere.

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Re: Good 109E article
« Reply #125 on: November 06, 2009, 08:11:18 AM »
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