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The lead was placed into the intake lips to act as a mass damper for the engine nacelle intake structure. Early in the Meteor developement at high speed a dynamic pitching/dilating oscillation (or buzz) was found in the necelle structure (not the engine) which resulted in airflow instabilty on the compressor face and bits of the intake broken off by sonic fatigue passing into the engine.

This makes more sense. Like why put additional weight at the nacelles when less weight would have been required further forward on the nose if it were only a matter of CG/WB problems?

In the opening pages of “Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Aces of the Russian Front” author John Weal describes the downing of a Russian Pe2 “taking with it Major Grigori Davidenko and observer Major Grashchev – ‘Heroes of the Sviet Union’ both – together with their anonymous gunner” on Tuesday 08 May 1945.

“The two fighters, Fw 190A-8s of II./JG 54, resumed their westward course for Kiel and British captivity. In shooting down the luckless Petlyakov, they had not only both claimed the last of the nearly 9500 victories accredited to their parent Geschwader, as well as undoubtedly one of the very last Luftwaffe kills of all of World War 2, they had also written finis to the saga of the Focke-Wulf fighters on the Eastern Front, a saga that had begun just 32 months earlier, almost to the day.”

It’s strange that although the names of the Russians were given, the names of the two Luftwaffe pilots were not.

At the risk of thread drift – wow! I’d not seen a new-build with gun troughs. Very nice! Thanks, Chad – another reason to visit PoF.

Now all that’s needed is a correctly shaped spinner. 🙂

Engines

Wow. Nice!
Where do these DB605s come from?
Somebody have a bunch of NOS engines stashed away somewhere for the past seventy-odd years like the Burma Spitfires?

As I understand it, the allies needed more troops to finally overwhelm the Germans. They wanted US troops to join the confederation of colonial cannon fodder….since UK commanders had already managed to thin the ranks of Canadians and Aussies.

“Colonial cannon fodder.” Yes, the British had lousy generals, mired in the past.

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But would it have made a good fighter?

Ask the WW2 German armor crews …. they were on the receiving end of the 4 cannons and 8 rockets.

Here’s a cutaway of the engine: (Don’t know how three images loaded … sorry.)