gopal%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Gopal Ramachandran) (06/05/90)
From: gopal%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Gopal Ramachandran) In article <16086@cbnews.ATT.COM> steve@uspm650.Dayton.NCR.COM (Steve Bridges) writes: >In addition, prior to the J model, there were no cowl flaps on the >engine to control engine oil temperature easy (as a pilot, I find >this very disconcerting, since ALL the high performance airplanes >I fly have cowl flaps).... I dont know. "ALL" is a lot of generalization. I've flown many reasonably high-performance (for General Aviation, that is) aircraft that DONT have cowl flaps. I'll cite two, a normally-aspirated single and a twin with two-turbochargers per engine: Pitts S-1S (3000fpm sea level rate-of-climb upright or inverted) Aerostar 601 (300mph+ at 25,000 feet with 290hp Lycomings) Yes, I've flown airplanes with cowl flaps, too but I dont find the lack of cowl flaps in GA airplanes very unusual. I do agree that it is amazing that they didnt seem to find them necessary in the P-38. Gopal