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Ha! I recognize that engine. Anyway, yes, the whole sleeve/deck height/gasket crush thing is standard wet-sleeve engine stuff, even my Listeroid has the same arrangement, although the deck height adjustment is rather more casual than on a modern Cat. Are there in-the-frame counterbore cleanup...

The experts (and we do have some on here) can give more detail, but as I remember, the 'best' approach for dealing with an airframe fire has changed over the decades. Back in the 1950s USAF SOP was to foam down the whole runway if the landing aircraft was afire or doing a gear-up landing and...

Very cool. I'm subscribed for sure. These are another feature of my memories of growing up on a SAC base. In fact, I remember when they built a huge new bay onto the flightline firehouse for the shiny new P-15 (which, yes, was enormous, but could probably put out a B-52). After that, the...