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Originally Posted by Seadog
Historically, if you were in a Merlin III powered fighter and you needed to use 12lb boost, you did so, and you damned the consequences because staying alive and/or destroying the enemy was more important than explaining away a broken engine. 12lb boost/3000rpm will not cause overheating in level flight. It might cause overheating in prolonged max angle of attack climbs as per Dowding's memo of Aug 1, 1940 but other combat manoeuvres were probably the prime culprit in causing increased engine wear leading to bearing failure, also as per Dowding's memo.
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I must admit to being kind of lost on what your stance/opinion is. Now you are saying you want to be able to fly at +12 lbs boost becuase there was a war to win and that was more important than a broken engine. So you accept that flying around in combat at +12 lbs boost could wreck your engine, but that the pilots didn't care?
06-06-2011, 07:08 PM
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