Charles P. Kuss wrote:

Paul,
 Wow! Great history lesson. This means more to me than most. I'm
originally from the Buffalo, New York area. Bell built the P-39 and the
P-63 at the Pierce Arrow auto plant on Elmwood Ave. in Buffalo. This was
an industrial district of 3-5 story high red, brick factories. A very
urban area. It seems that the planes were rolled off the factory line
and rolled out into the parking lot. After an engine run up and check
out by the test pilots, they were flown out.
 What is amazing is that there was NO airstrip there. (auto factory in
the middle of a city, remember) The "strip" was a parking lot less than
600 feet long with a 3 story brick building at the end. How would you
like to make a "maiden flight" under those conditions? No plane ever
failed to get off and clear of the building at the end of the parking
lot. Each plane was then flown for 1 hour and delivered to the Army Air
Corp at Buffalo Field. (now known as Buffalo International Airport)
 Anyway, the actual reason for this email, I didn't get the Tables 6-7 &
6-8 with your post. The alliturb.jpg image was also missing. Could you
post them? Keep up the great work!! TIA
Charlie Kuss
RV-8 fuel tanks
Boca Raton, Fl.

Table 6-7 and 6-8 are just intermediate results so I did not scan
them in. There is a lot of other stuff in the book on Bell products.

There is a picture of the turbo compound engine on the ACRE
web site however.

I can't figure out why you did not get the image.
Are you using netscape or IE?
Well in any event here it is again.

alliturb.jpg

Paul Lamar
 
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