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Jenny carb heat
As mentioned before the plans show carb heat being bleed off the exhaust manifold and I was wondering how this was accomlished on the short exhaust stack Ox 5 as I am depicting on my Canuck
Wolfenbill has kindly checked this out for me and it seems that there originally was no carb heat on the engine, or if there was, it was on all the time.I therefore will eliminate carb heat all together on my model.It is difficult sometimes when you are dealing with an aircraft that was flying over such an extended period of time and playing so many different roles, in an era before air regs standardized everything, to pin down exactly what is what.However it does leave lots of room for artistic licence(which I like) when dealing with a barnstormer of the 20s.I understand that some pilots even adjusted the airplanes stagger to suit there own tastes.It was a wonderful era in aviation when pilots were free to do just about anything.Unfortunately,we will never see an era like that again.Cheers! John.
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