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Old October 18th 07, 06:15 PM posted to rec.aviation.military,rec.aviation.military.naval
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Default Essential and Dispensible WW2 aircraft.

On 18 Oct, 00:51, Dan Nafe wrote:
In article . com,

Eunometic wrote:
The modification would have required a lengtened nose to and
additional
radiator area to deal with the extra head and to dump heat from the
intercooler.


Liquid cooling an aircraft engine is like air cooling a submarine
engine...

;-


What has liquid cooled engines to do with intercoolers?
And if liquid cooled engines are so bad why did every airforce want
liquid cooled engines for their fighters in WW2 (except the USN)?
some may have not had them in enough numbers (Italy, Japan) but they
wanted them.

Guy