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Re: [OM] OT: Life in Tempe

Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Life in Tempe
From: Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:40:09 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
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>>       Better yet, check out the engine instruments for a B-36.  There's a 
>> fellow two houses west of me who flew those.  He began with B-17s over 
>> Europe, then B-29s over Japan.  Tried and true Boeing man.
>>
>

>Yep, the flight engineer's panel covered quite a bit of real estate. VBG 
>  I used to work on B-36s as a Bombing Navigation system mechanic.  Also 
>flew on a few as a non-crewmember inflight bomb-nav mechanic.  Those 24 
>hour missions were something else.
>Paul in Portland OR
>

     I would love to see the engine instrument panel for a Soviet/Russian Bear 
bomber.  Eight turbine engines, two per nacelle with concentric propeller 
shafts so that each engine drives a single propeller independent of the other.  
Must be a nightmare to work on.

     And then there were the German Dornier between-the-wars seaplanes.  One 
had a dozen engines on top of the wing, six tractor and six pusher.  Yikes!


Chris

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro 
     - Hunter S. Thompson
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