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Old 06-16-2011, 09:53 PM
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Crumpp says it. The Merlin engine service manual doesn't. The service manual says check the oil filter after emergency boost, so does Dowding. The rest of what Crump writes is his own fantasy based upon the idea that RAFFC operated on the same lines as civil aviation. The reality is that most combat aircraft were destroyed before their hundred hour checks, and 25-40% of RAFFC pilots died before they achieved 100 hours of combat flying. The Merlin engine could be flown continuously at 12lb boost with a low probability of failure and this engine was cycled 100 times from 4.5 to 12lb/3000rpm and the bearings held up just fine:
http://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.o...bs-14nov39.jpg
without the need for repeated engine checks, since by definition the engine was being cycled multiple times per sortie.
I agree, huge difference is between 5 min and 8 hour, but the engine failure IS exists. If 20% of flight time using 12lbs boost, the engine gets damege certainly. After 50 hour test, this Hurri have cylinder head cooling leak. But you don't know, after how much time got damage. Maybe after 5 minutes, maybe one hour, maybe eight. Maybe its far from 5 min, but also far from "continously without damage". We do not say that the engine has to explode after 5:01 minute. But the problem exists, and it is not possible to leave it out of consideration.

I believe it if you say that a limitation was official onto the machine, but nobody took it seriously. Okay. But this does not mean that it did not have consequences. If you don't want to, you do not deal with it in the game. But let it have consequences. As it is for the other side.
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