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Desertfox

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Tuesday, August 28th 2007, 4:46am

Aviation Books

The University library has what appears to be every book ever writen about Aviation, so if anyone wants me to look something up just let me know and I'll try to do my best.

Found a nice book on British WWII Secret Projects, some nice bombers in there...

Red Admiral

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Tuesday, September 18th 2007, 8:31pm

Hi,

Can you have a look into the Packard V-1650 -9 series of engines please? I'd like to know whether or not they finally got the water injection system to work correctly.

See if they've got a copy of Sir Stanley Hooker's autobiography "Not much of an engineer". Its an excellent read.

Thanks

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Wednesday, September 19th 2007, 6:28pm

Found Hooker's book.

Found books on the Allison V-1710 and the big P&Ws, but strangely nothing on the Merlin engines. The books which did have info on the Merlin only had it for the British versions and not the Packard ones.

Is there a RR equivalent for the -9 version?

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Wednesday, September 19th 2007, 8:07pm

The -9 was more or less equilavent to the 100 series Merlin. Packard fitted a water injection system to it so that more boost could be used (up to 90") whilst RR just ran theirs at the same boost (and higher) with no ill effects.

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Wednesday, October 3rd 2007, 4:49pm

As far as I can tell, from reading P-82 manuals, Packard did get the water injection system to work properly.

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Friday, October 5th 2007, 2:27pm

But the P-82 was using late versions of the Allison V-1710 and not the V-1650-9. Political pressure forcing North American to adopt the poorer, but US-made engine hamstrung the P-82 for most of its life.

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Friday, October 5th 2007, 5:37pm

Some of the versions of the P-82 did use the V-1650-9. Those where the ones I took a look at.