| Author | Message | ||
     Teeps |
Just need to watch. PT 658 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-769340729 6698216570&ei=3mPQSMCOIKO6gAP&cgsC | ||
| Speedfreaks101 |
Respect. | ||
| Zac4mac |
If you watch this and have a dry face afterwards, you're not a vet. Very cool. Z | ||
| Xbpete |
My Dad passed 2 years ago, made beach landings at Anzio and Normandy with the 45th Division, 3rd Army under Patton. At the time of his passing he was helping to encact a museum at Ft. Miles in Lewes De. His Officers uniform hangs there today.. Thanks for the reminder of these proud and brave Americans..... lest we forget the price of our freedom.... | ||
| Ducbsa |
I need to see if how easy it is to make a contribution to them. One picky point, the narrator mentions radial engines while a Lancaster is on the screen, which had v12's. Are our motors a slice off a V12 or a segment of a radial? Does the forked rod make it closer to a radial? | ||
| Ferris_von_bueller |
Very cool...ashame it is on the other side of the country from me. | ||
| Ravensmith22 |
Packard made V-12's. Besides, you can't run radial engines in an enclosed space, they're air-cooled. | ||
| Ducbsa |
Donation Form http://www.savetheptboatinc.com/donation.htm | ||
| Ferris_von_bueller |
Besides, you can't run radial engines in an enclosed space, they're air-cooled. The Sherman tank utilized a Continental radial engine which had a fan attached to it's power shaft to provide cooling similar to a propeller. | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
Shermans were air cooled? Did they have more than one type of engine? I'm sure I've seen a huge aluminum V-8 from one of those on youtube. | ||
| 2008xb12scg |
If you watch this and have a dry face afterwards, you're not a vet. I may not be a vet but I just got dust in my eyes and that's why they're wet... Narrator said it "the greatest generation" What would we be without them? You gotta wonder...Thanks and respect to all of them!! | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
sure enough! I looked it up on wikipedia. They came with a veriety of engines including rotary air-cooleds. I wonder how that sicko with the 1970 mustang is coming along with his sherman engine project. | ||
| Ferris_von_bueller |
There used to be a show on Discovery HD called Tank Overhaul. I believe repeats of the show can be currently found on the Military Channel. You'll learn more then you ever wanted to know about tanks. | ||
| Ferris_von_bueller |
I did a search on the internet and there are two PT boats on static display at Battleship Cove in Fall River, Mass. http://www.battleshipcove.org/directions.htm . I believe a day-trip is in order. | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
Cool. I haven't been to battleship cove since I was 10  | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
Oh and by the way, the Mustang from hell is coming along too: http://videos.streetfire.net/video/Sherman-tank-en gine-in_130819.htm | ||
| Ferris_von_bueller |
It's amazing what the auto manufacturers were able to do to contribute to the war effort in such a short period of time. However, today; they can't hold their own. | ||
| 46champ |
The Packard built engine was a V-12 of approx. 2400 Cu in they trace their ancestry to the WW I Liberty engine. Also they weren't turbocharged but had a centrifugal flow supercharger like most WWII aircraft engines. Sherman tanks had 4 different engines: Continental built 9 cylinder radial Ford built 60 degree V8 GM built V 12 in reality two 6-71 diesels on a common crank case Chrysler 30 cylinder five 6 cylinder truck engines on a common crankcase. | ||
| Slaughter |
From my feeble random thought generator this morning: The Sherman was the 670 cubic inch 7-cylinder radial... 240 HP The aircraft engine version used in trainers of that time put out 220HP. The "liquid-cooled Sherman" was not a Sherman... possibly a Sheridan? We could build the highly vulnerable Shermans at almost 10 times the rate that the Germans could built their "better" tanks. The low octane fuel used by the Sherman was highly flammable compared to diesel. We used the 670 cu in Continentals as engines for our PT-23 glider towplanes at El Mirage in the late 60's to the mid 70's. Even used one of the 240HP motors to drive one of the irrigation pumps for a time (before my time there) Back to topic: from my rapidly fading memory, the PT boats used 3 of the the Packard-built Merlins. (Message edited by slaughter on November 29, 2008) | ||
| Ferris_von_bueller |
We could build the highly vulnerable Shermans at almost 10 times the rate that the Germans could built their "better" tanks. I sometimes wonder whether the U.S. isnt making the same mistake as the Germans, in regards to manufacturing highly sophisticated weaponry requiring high levels of maintenance | ||
| Teeps |
Ferris_von_bueller Posted on Saturday, November 29, I sometimes wonder whether the U.S. isnt making the same mistake as the Germans, in regards to manufacturing highly sophisticated weaponry requiring high levels of maintenance Me too, but we must have these high precision weapons to minimize collateral damage/casualties. |
