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Monday, June 20, 2016
Amazing WW2 Aircraft Facts
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9 comments:
- Rodger the Real King of France said...
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I'm trying to figure out how "808,471 aircraft engines were used," but only 799,972 propellers?
- 6/20/16, 8:20 AM
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@Rodger the Real King of France i'm going to guess that replacing an engine didn't always require a new prop.
- 6/20/16, 9:06 AM
- Rodger the Real King of France said...
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Okay, that was a trick question to see who was paying attention. Look for a little bonus in your paycheck this week.
- 6/20/16, 9:11 AM
- Sonoboy said...
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"460 thousand million rounds of aircraft ammo"? You mean 460 BILLION?
Just Damn... Talk about a copper shortage. Now you can see why they had to raid the US Mint for silver to make the electrical buss-bars at Oak Ridge, Tennesee for the Manhattan project. It was melted down and returned after the war.
- 6/20/16, 10:02 AM
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A Jug was 35 grand more than a Mustang? Well who'd a thunk it. -Anymouse
- 6/20/16, 10:30 AM
- Wabano said...
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A P-47 was far more formidable than a P-51 and nearly indestructible...took only a bullet to down these liquid cooled engines and some jugs came back with 3,000 bullet holes in them...as for accidents a WW II instructor told me a Lancaster captain was released with only 35 hours of flight training...pressure was extreme on training schools...(Lancaster were a very high performance complex bombers)
- 6/20/16, 12:56 PM
- JLW III said...
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I can confirm Sonoboy's comment. My dad managed a magnesium plant in Lake Charles, LA, towards the end of the war and they did the same thing. There was a 24/7 army guard over the bus bars and they weren't allowed to polish them which was the custom.
I have two four inch airplane desk ornaments in Mg. One has a propellor and the other doesn't.
BTW dad was drafted four times, and each time his management put the kibosh on it as his electrochemical background made him too valuable to the war effort. He always felt a little ashamed that he hadn't gone. - 6/20/16, 1:32 PM
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Another interesting statistic: The Army Air Force lost more airmen just in the European strategic bombing campaign than all Marine casualties in the Pacific.
- 6/20/16, 1:35 PM
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Gotta be a typo - in 1944 Germany was only losing 40 planes a month?? That's nothing, certainly not "hemorrhaging"!
- 6/20/16, 3:03 PM