Lockheed Bob's 1949 Cleveland Air Races Pics

[Lockheed Bob]

Re: Lockheed Bob's 1949 Cleveland Air Races Pics

Back to the Beechcraft Photo ,I probably took it because there wasn't many of those around at that time. As for the P63's with 12 exhaust stacks per side I found air force photos with the same setup & somewhere I read about them having twin turbochargers. I really don't know for sure. The Chino guys or the CAF should be able to shed some light on this. Well at least I got to be there to see some of Air Racing history back then.

[Airrace7]

Re: Lockheed Bob's 1949 Cleveland Air Races Pics

Thanks for taking the time to show them. Great pieces of air racing history!

[Hawkeye]

Re: Lockheed Bob's 1949 Cleveland Air Races Pics

Back to the Beechcraft Photo ,I probably took it because there wasn't many of those around at that time. As for the P63's with 12 exhaust stacks per side I found air force photos with the same setup & somewhere I read about them having twin turbochargers. I really don't know for sure. The Chino guys or the CAF should be able to shed some light on this. Well at least I got to be there to see some of Air Racing history back then.

The Allison had 2 exhaust ports per cylinder. The export P-400 Airacobra used 12 exhaust stacks per side, while other models used 6 per side. You could use either stack set-up on any Allison. The P-63 used the 12 stack per side arrangement.

[Ramjets]

Re: Lockheed Bob's 1949 Cleveland Air Races Pics

Thanks, Hawkeye....another mystery solved.