I got buzzed!!!

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"Kingfish" wrote:

Bela P. Havasreti wrote:
Go to the Reno Air Races, and at least in the Gold heats, you'll hear
Mustangs/Merlins pulling up to 140+ inches of manifold pressure (more
than double the original war emergency maximum power rating and
approaching triple the maximum manifold pressure allowable with 100LL
fuel).


I'm guessing with that kind of boost, they're running something a
little hotter than avgas : ) Otherwise, the CC would be picking up
pieces of Merlin after each run? I read Rare Bear uses specially mixed
160 octane fuel.

Most likely, as pure naptha has an octane equivalence of about 160.

"Tater" wrote

Parents live in the Falls MOA and have seen lots of stuff fly overhead.
c130s refueling overhead. F14 and A10s in dogfights. seeing the tops of
fighter jets while they were airborne (fairly hilly area, with jets
doing NOE flight)

Here, in the quiet foothills of NC, a couple years back, there was heard (by
thousands in and around town) a low, low rumble, then combined with a roar,
merging into the unmistakable roar of powerful jet engines.

Nobody knew what it was, but I, and many others went outside to look into the
night sky, and see if we could figure out what was making the noise. It went
on, and grew, to its unmistakable crescendo, for at least 3 or 4 minutes.

The event was the talk of the town. It seems everyone heard it, and wondered
what it was. It was not until a few days later, I talked to someone who lived a
bit further out in the hills, and they actually saw what was the source of all
the noise. It was a B-1 making a NOE run up a nearby river valley, then
powering up into an afterburner climbout.

It shook a lot of people up.

It was....magnificent!
--
Jim in NC

"Bela P. Havasreti" wrote

Go to the Reno Air Races, and at least in the Gold heats, you'll hear
Mustangs/Merlins pulling up to 140+ inches of manifold pressure (more
than double the original war emergency maximum power rating and
approaching triple the maximum manifold pressure allowable with 100LL
fuel).

You're right. I'll have to do that, one of these days. Anyone want to pick me
up, on the way by, one year? g

I think that goes to common purpose, and OK with the FAA, right? (please keep
the reply to _that_ in the other thread! )

Until I get there, I can only imagine!
--
Jim in NC