P47 Engine loss?

[Randy1]

This may be just a coincidence.  The 47 has always been easy to get a oil covered windscreen  but the engine would run for quite a long time.  Of late though, the engine fails at the time of the first oil hit. 

Anybody else notice an increase in first ht P47 engine failure?

[uptown]

I wouldn't say it's particularly "easy" to get an oil hit, but when I do it seems to lock the engine up more times than not. I've also noticed that most of my oil hits come from head on situations that I probably should have avoided to begin with.

[lunatic1]

i believe there is different damange ranges i believe--i primarley fly the p-51d--and sometime --with a engine hit can fly a full sector or better--and sometimes like lastnight oil bled out in less than 5 minutes.

[bozon]

An oil hit and a killed engine can be two different things. As it happens, both can happen simultaneously - both the oil is hit and the engine itself takes a disabling hit from the same burst.

[Randy1]

Must be then just a coincidence.  I think I have lost the engine with first hit on 3 of the last 4 outings.  One was ack.

[JOACH1M]

I notice in 47s the engine likes to blow with the oil hit also.

[Randy1]

I notice in 47s the engine likes to blow with the oil hit also.

LitMak flies a lot of 47s.  I wonder if he noticed a change too.

[Dragon Tamer]

I fly 47s a lot as well and it seems that larger calipers will cripple the engine rather than just oil it. It will still receive an oil leak though.

[ReVo]

Well it is a rather large radial engine mounted on a rather large aircraft...

[LCADolby]

Well it is a rather large radial engine mounted on a rather large aircraft...

P47, I believe he just called you fat.

[Brooke]

Us radials were very robust.  There are examples of them having cylinders shot off and making it back to base.

[-ammo-]

I haven't noticed it - and I fly P-47s almost exclusively.  When I get a oil hit, normally I can nurse a good 8-10 minutes out of it.

[aztec]

P47, I believe he just called you fat.

 

[Randy1]

I haven't noticed it - and I fly P-47s almost exclusively.  When I get a oil hit, normally I can nurse a good 8-10 minutes out of it.

Having those three or four sudden engine failures in a row was most likely then a statistically a low probability but not so low that it should be unexpected is my best guess then.. 

[Brooke]