Posted by JF in CT on November 02, 2013 at 04:37:58 from (24.151.105.39):
In Reply to: The Spruce Goose posted by Ultradog MN on November 02, 2013 at 02:59:05:
IIRC in reading some of the in depth history of the Spruce Goose it never would have flown as a cargo plane because the engine company, Napier, was never able to deliver the engines it promised to. They wound up using Pratt & Whitneys, while the most powerful production engines at the time, were substantially less powerful than what was planned as necessary. It is said that Napier had the reputation of taking any engine and making it twice as complicated as necessary. It's probably good that the Goose flight was so short as the engineers (some riding in the back if I remember) said the tail was about to break off just like the early B-17s.
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