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Those german planes both have what sounds like an engageable flywheel starter system? The engines just burst into life with a roar! Very cool!
Inverted mounting provided better visibility, lower center of gravity, and improved maintenance access. In the Bf 109, a cannon was mounted between the engine banks and fired through a propeller hub.
This starter uses the electric motor, spinning-up the inertia flywheel to about 18,000rpm. This is then engaged to the rear of the crankshaft (with a very high reduction ratio gear). The German versions were licence-built from the American "Eclipse" company. German Bosch modified and adapted the original design to produce a whole family of these inertia starters or, Schwungkraftanlasser. They were the primary type of starter system used by Luftwaffe aircraft in WW2. Contrary to popular writing, the wartime Bf109 types did not use the electrical energised starter. There was no room behind the DB engine on the 109 because that was where the ammunition magazines for the MG15/131 or the MK108 were fitted. The wartime Bf109 was only fitted with the manual-only AL/SED starter which was short and fitted into the gap. However, most of the modern rebuilt 109's with the real DB engines have been fitted with the electrical version of the inertia starter because the owners do not care enough about originality to use the manual-only correct starter. This modification also requires considerable redesign of the electrical wiring and use of non-original types of starter switch. This is unfortunate as, manual only operation of the starter is not difficult. The type of starter used on these modified hybrids is usually the Bosch AL/SGC electric type that was used on the Bf110 and other larger types with the DB engines.
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The nature of war, it would be an interesting fact to find out the freindly fire from the so called right side, i remember during the first Gulf war when a warrior armoured personel carrier was taken out by an A10, my good friend was out there and we would write to each other and i hoped he was not in that, he wasn't.A10, the most feared aircraft of all time, especially if you're on the same side
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I witnessed a fatal Spitfire crash at Woodford Airshow in 1992 and a fatal Mosquito crash at Barton Airshow in 1996. I don't attend them anymore.
It can be bad, i have seen so many people die on the race track, it is the nature of the beast!!
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Interesting 748 SPS, barn find! I've never found a Ducati in a barn!
Anyhoo, the last desmoquattro I worked on was nowhere near as plain sailing!
Anyhoo, the last desmoquattro I worked on was nowhere near as plain sailing!
I love cricket and yes you are right, swings and round abouts!
