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still wear hearing protectors.
-Curt
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 23:56:56 -0500
From: Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT:: Ain't Misbehavin' P-51 Mustang - for WWII
Aircraft Fans
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I still wear hearing protectors.
Properly muffled the Farmall is a very quiet tractor. I pulled
a 2-bottom plow with ours, muffled. Plenty of power for that.
(Well, just enough.)
-- Jim
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My Farmall used to shoot fire out the straight pipe, with a muffler
on the flames stay in the muffler (though at night the muffler glows
a pretty red.
My great uncle was convinced the muffler would stifle the power of
the tractor. Maybe it does but I like running it a lot more with the
On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 09:50:56 -0500 Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com wrote:
My Farmall used to shoot fire out the straight pipe, with a muffler
on the flames stay in the muffler (though at night the muffler glows
a pretty red.
In 130 years and maybe 80 years of tractors, nobody ever burned
Awesome video! I once saw a documentary of the Mustang and one scene
showed the engine being started. As the rich mixture started to light,
licks of flame came from each exhaust stack in the firing order (of
course) ;-) and having it all in slow motion made it even more
impressive! the
Summers when I worked at the airport there was a local car dealer
(Buicks I think) who had a P-51 and would fly it on Sunday morning
occasionally. Starting the thing and idling (high idle) over to the
runway, then the run-up was an awesome thing to behold. It sucked huge
quantities of fuel
Knew a WW-2 P-51 pilot in Miami who went in with a couple of other pilots
and bought one. Each one of the pilots had some sort of mishap with the
P-51. My friend must have forgotten that a P-51 burns around 50 gal/hr,
didn't top off the tanks, and headed for Jacksonville. He ran out of fuel
licks of flame came from each exhaust stack in the firing order...
the flames were dancing at the ends of the exhaust.
We had an old Moline tractor that did that! Didn't like to take
it into the hay barn for some reason...
-- Jim
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Summers when I worked at the airport there was a local car dealer
(Buicks I think) who had a P-51 and would fly it on Sunday morning
occasionally. Starting the thing and idling (high idle) over to the
runway, then the run-up was an awesome thing to behold. It sucked
huge quantities of fuel
licks of flame came from each exhaust stack in the firing order...
the flames were dancing at the ends of the exhaust.
We had an old Moline tractor that did that! Didn't like to take
it into the hay barn for some reason...
-- Jim
We always put a spark arrestor on the tractor before pulling
Dieselhead wrote:
A guy named Doc Byrum had a nice P-51 in Iowa City in the 70s.
I'd often see it at the airport next to US 218 when approaching
from the south. Doc Byrum died in a plane crash. I never heard
if it was the p-51 or not.
Looks like maybe he died in a P-51 crash - but not
P-51 is a beautiful aircraft, and was the first production aircraft
with laminar flow airfoil wings. Aside from the vulnerability of
the water cooled engine, it had a bad habit of snapping off wings
when the pilot went into a high speed dive. There is a book out by a
pilot who flew them.
Don't miss the last few seconds.
http://vimeo.com/36034351
Footnote: P-51 was awesome but according to my dad (who flew P-47s in
China, mostly air-to-mud) the P-51 engine was water-cooled and the cooling
system was quite vulnerable to small-arms ground fire. Baring catastrophe,
the P-47s
Got yourself another ATTABOY, Scott. Thanks!
Wilton
- Original Message -
From: Scott Ritchey ritche...@nc.rr.com
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2013 5:36 PM
Subject: [MBZ] OT:: Ain't Misbehavin' P-51 Mustang - for WWII Aircraft Fans
Don't
Wilton wrote:
Got yourself another ATTABOY, Scott. Thanks!
Text under the video reads:
Take a ride with Billy Strickland in Birmingham, Alabama in his
beautiful Mustang...
Ya gotta find your relations to this guy and have him take you up?
Sounds like your distant relative?
mao
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