Just thought I´d share this nice relic I got today. Does anyone know if "E4" indicates that the motor of this plate has been mounted in a P39 Airacobra which was on lend and lease from USA to tge Soviet Union?
Cheers Jan
US Aircraft Plate Allison V1710 E4. From a P39 Airacobra
Just thought I´d share this nice relic I got today
Cheers Jan
Re: US Aircraft Plate Allison V1710 E4. From a P39 Airacobra
Hi Jan,
That's correct the P-39 and P-63 used the V-1710-E series engine, exchanging the integral reduction gear for an extension shaft driving a remotely located reduction gear and right handed tractor propeller. The plate could just as easily have come from a P-63 King Cobra as this was really a specific production design for the lend-lease programme.
Regards, Ned.
'I do not think we can hope for any better thing now.
We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course, and the end cannot be far.
It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. R. SCOTT.
Last Entry - For God's sake look after our people.'
In memory of Capt. Robert Falcon Scott, Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers, Lawrence Oates and Edgar Evans. South Pole Expedition, 30th March 1912.
Re: US Aircraft Plate Allison V1710 E4. From a P39 Airacobra
Thanks Ned!
Kippis Jan
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