[ARC5] Are You Kidding?

[J. Forster]

That engine would probably buy a not-so-small house today.

-John

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>   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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