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Re: [Spridgets] Aviation piston engine question - No LBC

To: WeslakeMonza1330@aol.com
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Aviation piston engine question - No LBC
From: Geoff Branch <gjbranch@comcast.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:16:35 -0400
There were plenty of V engined twins....Mosquito, P-38 come to mind.  
True they weren't V-8s but they sure don't sound like radials

WeslakeMonza1330@aol.com wrote:
> Many years ago at RAF Brize Norton a vintage (WW2 era I guess) US piston  
> engine flew on.  Engine note sounded like a vee-8 dragster at idle.  I  
> mentioned this to a guy in the office this week who is a bit of an aviation 
>buff  
> and he said it must be a radial because there were no US twin or 4 engined 
> WW2  era aircraft with a vee8 engine.  Who's wrong - him or my ears?
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