[Fred Douglass]

.........just moot!

Say, your statement about an F4U at an ultralight convention is just plain HYSTERICAL. My (step) uncle used to fly those babies out of Guadalcanal and Bougainville. He said that they were the "fastest prop planes in the War". He claimed that he could flat RIP through flocks of Mitsubishi "Zeros" and frequently hit 485 knots in LEVEL FLIGHT at sea-level. "Easily". No preliminary shallow dive or similar stunts. Just firewalling the throttle. Oddly, he ended up flying P-51s against MiGs, for a while in 1950. Oooooooops!

Wright Cyclones were some kind of powerplant, by all indications.

Chow,