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[robtek]

Originally Posted by Flying Pencil

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Standard aircraft design, even at that time, was to eliminate any combustible structure and skin in the engine area. Common safety practice.

Wright had the problem that the engines for the b29 (R-3350) should deliver 1hp/ibs.
To reach that goal they used magnesium in the engine housing.
The result were that a engine fire usually burned through the main spar of the wing,
with predictable results.

[Flying Pencil]

Originally Posted by robtek

Wright had the problem that the engines for the b29 (R-3350) should deliver 1hp/ibs.
To reach that goal they used magnesium in the engine housing.
The result were that a engine fire usually burned through the main spar of the wing,
with predictable results.

An exception becuase of the ill-conceived action to achieve a design goal (1hp per 1 Lb of engine weight, pressuring to cut corners)

[Ninelives]

My father was in the army in WW2 (Signals) and witnessed German planes burning very quickly but wasn't sure why. Then one day (after D-Day landings) he found some German a/c wreckage to use for materials and set about heating it up to bend it only to find that it went up in a white hot flame in his hands! Luckily he wasn't injured but he then understood why some parts of some planes burned very quickly. He has confirmed to me it was magnesium and was probably used simply because there was more of it available. (or weight saving as said above)

[Romanator21]

given the fact his German planes(and bombs) are far superior to allied equipment?


Nooooooo...

Fave plane porked?