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coronavirus symptoms
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Re: Nashville airport
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On Mar 3, 2020, at 5:00 PM, Alex Nelon <alex.nelon@...> wrote:
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Re: I Stalled The Damn Thing - AVweb
Interesting video, Bill.? Worth watching.? On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 8:06 AM Bill Kemper via Groups.Io <Bill3558=[email protected]> wrote:
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WWII Aviation Gasoline.
First time I¡¯ve heard this story From Garland Goodwin - museum member This is a declassified article by the British Society of Chemists (Declassified in 2014) ? "It has always puzzled me as to why the German Luftwaffe kept on using?87 Octane Aviation Gasoline while the Americans and British used?100 Octane Gasoline in their Spitfire Fighters and Americans used 130 Octane in our P-51 and other fighters. This morning I discovered the reason! It seems that the German and British aircraft both used 87 Octane Gasoline? in the first two years of the war. While that was fairly satisfactory in the German? Daimler-Benz V-12 engine, It was marginal in the British Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engine in British aircraft. It fouled the spark-plugs, caused valves to stick, And made frequent engine repair problems. Then came lend- lease and American aircraft began to enter British service in great numbers. If British engines hated 87 Octane gasoline, American, General Motors Built, Allison 1710 engines loathed and despised it. Something had to be done! Along came an American named Tim Palucka, a chemist for Sun Oil in their South East Texas Refinery. Never heard of him? Small wonder, very few people have. He took a French formula for enhancing the octane of Gasoline, and invented the "Cracking Tower" and produced 100 octane aviation Gasoline.?This discovery led to great joy among our English?Cousins and great distress among the Germans.?A Spitfire fueled with 100 Octane gasoline was 34 miles per hour faster at 10,000 feet. The need to replace engines went from every 500 hours of operation to every 1,000 hours. Which reduced the cost of British aircraft by 300? Pounds Sterling. Even more, when used in 4 engine bombers. The Germans couldn't believe it when Spitfires that couldn't catch them a year ago started shooting their ME-109 E and G models right out of the sky. Of course, the matter had to be kept secret. If the Germans found out that it was a French Invention, They'd simply copy the original French patents. If any of you have ever wondered what they were doing in that 3 story white brick building in front of the Sun Oil Refinery on Old Highway 90, that was it. They were re-inventing gasoline. The American Allison engines improved remarkably with 100 Octane gasoline, but did much better when 130 octane gasoline came along in 1944. The 130 Octane also improved the Radial Engine Bombers we produced.?The Germans and Japanese never snapped to the fact that we had re-invented gasoline. Neither did our "Friends" the Russians. 100,000 Americans died in the skies over Europe.? Lord only knows what that number would have been without?"Super-Gasoline". And it all was invented just a few miles west of Beaumont, and we never knew a thing about it." ? |
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Re: Flying today
Boring is nice. I did the same with a short trip around the valley. Mark is back and hauled the RV-8 out to warm his oil in prep for an oil change and condition inspection. Our hangar is a toxic zone - beware of appendicitis, coronavirus and flying for the sheer fun of it.? On Sun, Mar 1, 2020 at 6:50 PM darwinljan <darwinljan@...> wrote: Went out to fly today, almost didn¡¯t make it.? ?I hit a rut from the vehicle that was driving around the hangers and was stopped dead with a little 1/4 turn.? My intent was to miss it.? the only way to get it out was to tow it out with my car.? ?After much evaluation and a few words, I decided that the best thing to do was try to get to the runway and fly.? |
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Flying today
Went out to fly today, almost didn¡¯t make it. I hit a rut from the vehicle that was driving around the hangers and was stopped dead with a little 1/4 turn. My intent was to miss it. the only way to get it out was to tow it out with my car. After much evaluation and a few words, I decided that the best thing to do was try to get to the runway and fly.
The flight was was unremarkable. I like that word, unremarkable. Darwin It¡¯s ok to have enemies, it means you stood up for something. |
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Re: Welcome, Owen!
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On Feb 28, 2020, at 10:37 AM, Alex Nelon <Alex.nelon@...> wrote:
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Re: [Eaa1016] Triple tree chilli flyin
I¡¯m staying home. Maybe go to the Uncle John fly-in at the end of March? On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 3:59 PM Darwin <darwinljan@...> wrote:
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Re: AVL changes
What he did say regarding hangers was that if someone whatevs to put up the money they would have the hangers built.
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Darwin It¡¯s ok to have enemies, it means you stood up for something. On Feb 20, 2020, at 8:30 PM, Brian Leverson <sotatwin@...> wrote: |
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Re: AVL changes
How courteous of the AVL manager to show up in person to let a GA organization know they were losing scarce hangar space. I suppose he said the airport authority was building additional hangars for the use of those GA aircraft being displaced, as well as for the many aircraft owners on the waiting list? Hmmm, probably not.
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Brian On Feb 20, 2020, at 4:53 PM, darwinljan <darwinljan@...> wrote: |
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Thanks for the update.? On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 4:53 PM darwinljan <darwinljan@...> wrote: At the pilot assoc. meeting this past Tuesday the airport manager updated the runway project and airport expansion.? The runway is now projected to be completed this September.? Additional parking is being added across the street from the terminal. |
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