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Originally Posted by The_Stapler
but the spitfire and hurricane (2 aircraft I'm sure are also carburetted) dont cut out under the same conditions. Can anyone explain this to me?
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As Gilly wrote, the British fighters had somethings looking a bit like a plain washer installed in their petrol hose, preventing overflowing the carburettor chamber. The "Tilly orifice" (really the BAE restrictor, but it doesn't sound as good when you toast to it in the mess) was only introduced in early 1941, so during the Battle of Britain, they would suffer the same problems as the I-16 and I-153.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilly_orifice