[ARC5] Are You Kidding?

[Leslie Smith]

  At the end of WWII my second cousin, Ivan Kingston, bought the front
  end of a Spitfire for twenty pounds.
  He set the engine up on his workbench, and supplied oil, fuel & co.
  The fuel was in a 13 gallon drum.  He cranked the engine over and it
  idled nicely, for about 10 minutes.
  Then it stopped.

  It turned out that a Spit engine consumes about 90 gallons per hour -
  idling.
  Ivan never considered this when he handed over twenty pounds at the
  DoD auction.
  
  The engine ended up in the corner of a paddock used as a tip.
  I used to wonder at all these pieces of an aircraft engine before I
  heard the story from my brother-in-law.  


  73 de Les Smith
  vk2bcu at operamail.com


On Wed, Feb 12, 2014, at 9:29, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
> On 10 Feb 2014 at 20:53, Robert  Eleazer wrote:
> 
> > Of course, at that time you could buy a brand new never used fully
> > equipped P-38 for $1,500, and supposedly there were places that were
> > selling well used P-39's and P-40's for $50 each.
> 
> A friend bought one of those P-40s. He and another friend decided against 
> doing anything with it when they took a close look at the fuel line: it
> was over 
> 3/4" in diameter.
> 
> They decided they couldn't afford the fuel.
> 
> I don't know what they ever did with the P-40. Sold it, I think.
> 
> Ken W7EKB
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