Hey now! The Allison V-1710 engines of the magnificent and highly successful WW2 Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter aircraft were turbocharged! In fact, they were remote mounted turbocharged, with a turbocharger aft in each boom of the twin-engined warbird.
Even further Slydlowski was a Polish Jew that moved to France and founded TURBOMECA with french André Planiol ! Russians even without the internet managed to cheat and copy...
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Hey now! The Allison V-1710 engines of the magnificent and highly successful WW2 Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter aircraft were turbocharged! In fact, they were remote mounted turbocharged, with a turbocharger aft in each boom of the twin-engined warbird.
Even further Slydlowski was a Polish Jew that moved to France and founded TURBOMECA with french André Planiol !
Russians even without the internet managed to cheat and copy...
8:19 The WW2 era P-47 Thunderbolt and P-38 Lightning were both turbocharged...and looked good using them. 😀🇦🇺