The Rolls Royce Merlin was a fantastic piece of engineering, full of brilliant flourishes. One of those was a small tab on the crankshaft. US manufacturers had to simplify the design in order to produce it, with one of the simplifications being the omission of that tab. It just didn't *do* anything.
Unless you were running under full War Emergency Power for an extended period. Then it kept the crankshaft from breaking.
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Date: 2011-02-09 11:44 pm (UTC)The Rolls Royce Merlin was a fantastic piece of engineering, full of brilliant flourishes. One of those was a small tab on the crankshaft. US manufacturers had to simplify the design in order to produce it, with one of the simplifications being the omission of that tab. It just didn't *do* anything.
Unless you were running under full War Emergency Power for an extended period. Then it kept the crankshaft from breaking.