If you look at this link (from that same series)
<http://www.enginehistory.org/Allison/V-1710Details/allisonv1710installationinp51.html>
you'll see that the scoop provides air to both the coolant and oil
radiators. The oil cooler is inside of and surrounded by the coolant
radiator and the air scoop provides air flow to both of them.
I'll have to ask my dad what he called them. He worked on P-38s and
P-51s from late 1943 to the end of the war. P-39s and P-40s before that.
Chuck Norcutt
On 10/17/2012 4:25 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
> Chris,
>
> Perhaps you can help me understand why this scoop is referred to as an "oil
> cooler" (even the model makers call it that), when it was actually an engine
> coolant radiator. See the link to the following diagram:
>
> http://www.enginehistory.org/Allison/V-1710Details/allisonv1710coolingsysteminp51.html
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
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>> Yes, the Mustang's oil cooler is a very neat design; and I've always
>> wondered if it is that component that makes the beautiful and distinctive
>> howl when the aircraft reaches a certain speed.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On 17 Oct 2012, at 16:54, Ian Nichols <ian.a.nichols@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>> Thanks, Ian.
>>>>
>>>> It is hard to see from these images, but there is a circumferential
>>>> opening
>>>> at the back of the cowling that provides a smooth exit path.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thought it would be something like that, which is very neat and, if done
>>> right (and it probably is here) could even add a bit of thrust due to the
>>> heat input along the way - a bit like the famous P-51D oil cooler.
>>
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