Calling all pilots! What is it?

**Pussy** · 29th August 2009, 19:18

Originally Posted by dangerous

(mk24 spitty went up to a v24) Wigram musume has a square/flat 24 from a grumman possibly on the floor.. that I'd love to hear.

The Mk24 was still a V12 (Griffon)

The "H" engine at Wigram (basically 2 horizontally opposed 12s driving a common shaft) is a Napier Sabre out of a Typhoon/Tempest

**Bass** · 29th August 2009, 19:20

Originally Posted by Pussy

I've got a Centaurus piston from a Sea Fury in my shed....

Awesome!

Where do you live?

I have a cutaway drawing of a Sabre on my computer at work. Actually, I think I got it when someone posted it in one of these forums.

What a complicated beast, but what a compact package for the power output.

**Pussy** · 29th August 2009, 19:23

Originally Posted by Bass

Awesome!

Where do you live?

I'll go take a pic of it and post it here.
It was from a whole lot of stuff that was used to get the Fury that was rebuilt in Ardmore flying a few years ago

Edit: Sully 60 has seen it!

**Bass** · 29th August 2009, 19:26

Originally Posted by James Deuce

Trying to find it - I did a big reasearch effort on another forum but the article has been archived. It was nearly 10 years ago.

Following with interest.

Harking back to the original post for a moment - if it is a Yak 52 that he was looking at, someone out at Ardmore once told me that the 52 was one of the best bangs for the dollar around when capability and cost are taken into account. The M14P that powers them went out of production in 1998 but there are heaps of them still around. and if worst comes to worst, the Chinese version in the Nangchang will bolt straight in.
Looked at bolting one into our Wilga when she threw a conrod. It's a common mod but there is no factory paperwork for it and so we would have been relegated to experimental.

**dangerous** · 29th August 2009, 19:33

Originally Posted by Pussy

The Mk24 was still a V12 (Griffon)

The "H" engine at Wigram (basically 2 horizontally opposed 12s driving a common shaft) is a Napier Sabre out of a Typhoon/Tempest

ahh yes thats right, still love to hear one

At Omaka they hve verious running engins on trailers, so ya get to stand right next to them... and thats loud.

**BiK3RChiK** · 29th August 2009, 19:35

The only aerobatics I've done were in a Tiger Moth... Interesting thread, TGW! Hehe.. I've sat in one of those Mustang cockpits but that's it... I think Steve has flown in one though. We had a lot of planes fly in when we lived in the Far North, what with it being the last fuel stop before heading off-shore, and it was certainly very interesting at the Aero Club up there some days.

**Pussy** · 29th August 2009, 19:36

Originally Posted by dangerous

ahh yes thats right, still love to hear one

At Omaka they hve verious running engins on trailers, so ya get to stand right next to them... and thats loud.

There's some bloody neat stuff at Omaka!
I was there at the beginning of the month at a conference.... Alistair Marshall cranked up the Bristol Freighter for us.. man that sounded nice!

**dangerous** · 29th August 2009, 19:40

Originally Posted by Pussy

There's some bloody neat stuff at Omaka!
I was there at the beginning of the month at a conference.... Alistair Marshall cranked up the Bristol Freighter for us.. man that sounded nice!

Yeah now they need to find a wistling wheelbarrow (both flowen by safe air) that would be kinda cool, I remember the things as a kid.

**Bass** · 29th August 2009, 19:48

Originally Posted by BMWST?

the merlin was supposed to be overhauled if the throttle was ever pushed "through the gate"This engaged BOTH superchargers(the second one was only supposed to operate at higher altitude)During the battle of Britain this might happen several times on each flight !

I knew a guy who converted a brand new Merlin to diesel and dropped it into a fishing boat.

Sacrilege!!!!!

On the face of it, it's impossible because they were only 6.5 to 1 compression ratio, but by locking the second stage of the blower in, he had enough boost at only 500 rpm. Glow plugs to start of course and it turned out to be a remarkably economical motor.