I had an old book titled care and operation of farm equipment published by John Deere in the late 20's/early 30's and they discussed the water injection system of the D in that book, here is a thought for you, the Air Force used water injection on several of its' larger Aircraft (B52G, KC135A) where they overfueled the engine and dumped large quantities of de-mineralized water into the hot section of the engine for increased thrust during take off. While serving at KI Sawyer Air Force Base in upper Michigan my office was in the bomb dump just to the east and south of the runway. During the summer anytime we had winds from the south they of course would take off heading South, into the wind. When they were running the KC 135 with water injection for take off when they flew over my office stuff would vibrate off my desk. The KC 135 had 4 engines and used two water pumps, there was a story going around that at first they plumbed the aircraft and so you had a left and a right pump, it worked fine until one of the water pumps failed and the aircraft experienced massive asymmetrical thrust during takeoff, after that they changed the plumbing so one pump ran the inner two engines (#2 and #3) the other pump the outer engines (#3 and #4). There is a picture of KC 135s and B52Gs taking off with water injection and big thick black clouds behind them, thee caption "Made when man thought he could burn water"
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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