A legendary intercontinental bomber caught between two eras.
We've shown this clip from the movie Strategic Air Command, starring James Stewart, before:
Nite.
MFBB.
Saturday, June 03, 2023
Sunday, May 28, 2023
LEGENDARY ENGINES: THE NAPIER DELTIC.
A magnificent video on yet another brilliant Napier product, the Deltic:
As you heard, before Napier, Junkers too found out there were problems with the correct phasing of the three cilinder banks. Where Junkers abandoned the triangular design and developed a 'square' variant with four banks, which apparently gave no problems, Napier found the solution. Or rather, a senior draftsman at Napier found it: simply making one of the three crankshafts run in the opposite direction to the other two!
MFBB.
As you heard, before Napier, Junkers too found out there were problems with the correct phasing of the three cilinder banks. Where Junkers abandoned the triangular design and developed a 'square' variant with four banks, which apparently gave no problems, Napier found the solution. Or rather, a senior draftsman at Napier found it: simply making one of the three crankshafts run in the opposite direction to the other two!
MFBB.
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