Well I thought a 'internal' diagram might be interesting and the best one I could find was the one I used.Oh the irony of the post title and the tech drawing in Japanese.
Yup. Bf109Is that a fighter engine, looks like a messerschmitt they had "upside down" engines, they even put Rolls Royce from shot down and abandoned british Spitfires, in the same chassis.
Into one of these.Is that a fighter engine, looks like a messerschmitt they had "upside down" engines, they even put Rolls Royce from shot down and abandoned british Spitfires, in the same chassis.
He didn’t say it was Chinese. Dimwit.Well I thought a 'internal' diagram might be interesting and the best one I could find was the one I used.
Obviously I should have gone for the rubbish one with Englander writing on it.
Obviously.
Anyway, can't you read Chinese? Actually it's not Chinese, but that will only confuse you more.
Looks like they fitted the engines upside-down to keep the cowling as narrow as possible! Lubrication must be dry-sump type!
I know the spitfire suffered fuel starvation in a dive, this was cured by an invention by a lady that worked putting the planes together, this small cheap addition really surprised the Germans that used to use a dive to get away. I dont know if they had baffles in the oil pan though!!
That'll be her then!!Miss Shillings Orifice.