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WFS · 23 October 2001, 11:05 AM

In "High In The Empty Blue" it states "that McCudden had a penchant for taking off in a steep climbing turn,". Revell then offers evidence that the crash could have been due to the engine choking when McCudden opened the throttle to gain the power necessary for the turn.

If that was the case then McCudden wasn't trying to turn back after the engine quit. The engine quit while he was executing a climbing turn. It seems that one of the accident investigating officers (H.N. Charles) reported that the air filter on McCudden's SE5a was of a type that he had had to modify when he was 56 Sqn. engineering officer in 1917!

Wayne

23 October 2001, 11:05 AM	#17 (permalink)
WFS Scout Pilot Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Maryland Posts: 444	In "High In The Empty Blue" it states "that McCudden had a penchant for taking off in a steep climbing turn,". Revell then offers evidence that the crash could have been due to the engine choking when McCudden opened the throttle to gain the power necessary for the turn. If that was the case then McCudden wasn't trying to turn back after the engine quit. The engine quit while he was executing a climbing turn. It seems that one of the accident investigating officers (H.N. Charles) reported that the air filter on McCudden's SE5a was of a type that he had had to modify when he was 56 Sqn. engineering officer in 1917! Wayne __________________ "The Lord God is subtle, but malicious he is not." Albert Einstein