Merciful heavens no wonder jets were so enthusiastically accepted!!! What a freaking nightmare. It must have been like juggling four balls and having a spinning plate on your chin while flying the airplane. I can see where the fire issues came about by the least inattention to to throttling and mixture. I wonder what the life expectancy of flight engineers was?
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as a a/2c on B-50s and C-124-A globe-masters I got $80 a month and was also expected to do maintenance when problems occurred. We also had an engineer that was a 1 striper. Nothing like being assigned to a SAC base.UGH
Originally posted by Jerry Liles: Good grief. If that's what it took for a big radial how did the Corsair drivers manage their engines?
The vast majority of Corsairs ran R-2800's which is much more robust and simple engine that the R-4360. There were a few Super Corsairs that ran the R-4360 which for obvious reasons was never mass produced.
Here is a perfect example of why a fire prone R-4360 isn't a good idea on a single engine airplane.
