-=> While breaking out of cloud Jay Hanig boldly told Tony about TURBO 
COMPOUND 
 JH> 29 Dec 97 15:17, TONY PATON wrote to JIM DAWSON:
 -=>> TURBO COMPOUNDJD>> The early non-turbocompound (but turbocharged) 
R-3350s were not very
 JD>> reliable but were sufficiently so to make regular trips betweeen Guam,
 JD>> Tinian and Siapan to Japan as neede in '44 & '45.
 
 TP> In what aircraft?
 JH> B-29s.
Interesting, what did the updated verion have as powerplants? B-50 i think it 
was
called.
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