Bertie

The "N" is what I flew.

If you had to hold on the ground very long even with cowel flaps open
coolent temp got hot no matter the idle RPM.

To prevent so many aborts due to an over temp they put a fire truck at
end of R/W. When you got to #1 if you were hot you motioned to the guy
in truck and he pulled a hose out and walked along leading edge of
wing and stuck hose in front of coolent radiator and turned water on.
You could see the temp go down it dissapated the temp so fast.

When you were in the green you motined him away and took runway and
rolled.

One time I was #1 and over temp. Motioned for water and the guy shook
his head and gave me a thumbs down which I took as no water left.

Was not about to abort so rolled. Just as I broke ground the Allison
quit ( Pulled throttle back and caught. I must have flown 10 miles
on the deck gettng coolent temp down before I quit shaking and started
to climb.

Looking back, wonder why more of us didn't kill ourselves ( Luck of
the Irish I guess???

Big John

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Was at an airshow a few months ago that had a P-40 N doing a show.
Looked and sounded great and was a nice change.


Bertie