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Did you notice on both engines the cylinders rotates with the propeller?
I think the guy with the oil can was lubing the rocker arms. In flight I believe they would get lubed by oil thrown up from the cam.
RE the Lancasters (I only get on this forum about once a week) I read a Readers' Digest book about flying a Lancaster during WWII, but I don't remember the title. To get as much altitude as they could with a full bomb load they would do what they called "climbing the stairs." They would go...
I have heard P51s go by low and WOW, but I would really love to have heard the four Merlins in mutt_kahuna’s Lancaster (page 1) !!
A good friend of mine was an EWO on a Navy Reserve P2 Neptune years ago and told me a story of one of their cross country flights. They were bored and started...