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Get from 25F archives, 148334 just about to take-off under the 7400 hp of its two " Turbo-Compound Wright radials. When carrying neither very much gas nor heavy armaments as bombs or torpedoes giving to Neptune a maximum weight up to 8O,000 lbs, the J-34-WE-36 jet engines totalling 6800 lbs thrust were not used. They were very costly because on Neptunes they were fed with avgas, not kerozene... Initial acceleration after brakes release was high and I remember a non fixed box of standard military rations and other foods which dove from a table and zoomed along aircraft floor, releasing its contents; this inner bombing was quite amusing except for the man in charge with... |
