How bout a few Vintage aircraft photos? - Page 6

**kwhizz** · #51 12-03-2011, 12:52 AM

O.K..........Dumb question.......How was the oil controlled and retrieved from those Radial engines when they were running??

**m22mike** · #52 12-03-2011, 12:58 AM

PFM... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

Here is the oil scavange system for a R3350, note the front and rear oil sump.

**kwhizz** · #53 12-03-2011, 01:53 AM

Mike.....Thanks for Posting the pic......but.....Do the bottom cylinders get loaded up with Oil??.......I guess I just don't see it.....

**Charley Lillard** · #54 12-03-2011, 02:46 AM

My vintage aircraft.

**m22mike** · #55 12-03-2011, 04:43 AM

Ken
When radials are running there using oil, they do not load up, they just blow it out. On the Supper Connie's I was a flight crew member on each engine, R3350 Turbo compounded, Had a 42 Gal oil tank mounted behind the engine in the wing, plus two 67 gal auxiliary tanks, one in each wing root. The FE could transfer oil around as needed. On a typical 15 or 17 hr recon flight we would use around 50 or 60 gallons of oil.
Radials do have a tendency to collect oil in the bottom cylinders while static, that's why, in old WW II footage you will see crew members hand proping, this allows the oil to exit the exhaust valves. There is a danger of a hydraulic lock if enough oil collects.
I bet your sorry you asked... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/scholar.gif[/img]
Charley, I would not trust you in a plane.... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/CharleySucks.gif[/img]

Eddie M. · #56 12-03-2011, 05:02 AM

I didn't know that Thankz Mike

**m22mike** · #57 12-03-2011, 05:04 AM

I had a few hrs in this bird. VW-1 Squadron based out of NAS Agana, Guam. WC121J bu# 145933 landing at the Marine Corp Air station in Chu Lia 1968

**427TJ** · #58 12-03-2011, 05:05 AM

Convair F-102 Delta Daggers at their home base of Paine AFB, WA, now home to Boeing's large aircraft assembly line. Photo c1960.

Two Blue Angels F-4J Phantoms join up with two civilian-owned Grumman F8F-2 Bearcats in 1969. The "Blues" flew the F8F-1 in the latter '40s and the two Bearcats here were owned by Bill and Corky Fornoff and they flew an exciting aerobatic demo with both planes. Sadly, the elder Fornoff's Bearcat shed a wing during a performance and crashed fatally. The other Fornoff Bearcat, I believe, is with the collection at Palm Springs today.

MATS C-121 Constellation cruises over the Golden Gate in about 1959.

One-armed crop duster pilot (whose name eludes me at the moment) performs for the airshow crowd at Concord, CA in 1947.

Prototype YF-100 over Muroc dry lake near Edwards AFB in 1953. Famed Pearl Harbor hero George Welch, who got airborne in his P-40 during the raid, was killed in an F-100 prototype at Edwards on October 12, 1954 when the airplane broke apart during a high-G dive recovery at Mach 1.5. Welch was the first pilot to exceed Mach 1 in level flight and he did so in a prototype F-100.

**TimG** · #59 12-05-2011, 03:49 PM

Charley, do you still have that beast?

StealthBird · #60 12-05-2011, 11:53 PM

Charley, that THE coolest car I've ever seen! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]

Tons of great nose art on B-17's, B-26's, B-24's, P-51's, and P-38's, but the P-47 is my favorite. The giant P-47 cowl provided tons of room for artwork. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]