Thread:Loupy5919/@comment-4762474-20160825071648/@comment-29750971-20160828013904

Yeah, I've been thinking about them needing a torpedo bomber now. Their ships don't have the firepower to handle League battleships & cruisers, but with carriers, they can stand off and pound them like Kurokawa just did the allies convoy. They've got the 10 cylinder double radials already & you don't need retractable landing gear (British Swordfish TBs for example). They could build a twin engine wooden design fairly quickly. The fixed gear would sturdy enough to handle carrier ops with torpedoes. Could use the nacelle fairings for extra fuel, oil or a turbo normalizer. Normalizer's don't stress engines like regular turbo/super charging, they just maintain sea level air pressure up to what ever the design altitude is, which maintains sea level power output up to that altitude. Could also use bleed air to either pressurize an enclosed cockpit or put pressurized air into a face mask for the cat's since they seem to have problems at lower altitudes than humans do. The normalizer could be based on the DD's blowers. I remember William Curry saying they were usually powered either pneumatically or hydraulically. Pneumatically can be exhaust driven & with the system a few feet from the engine the exhaust heat wouldn't affect the turbo like the ones sitting right at the exhaust manifold. Or they could go with a mechanical linkage. As for Silva & the dino, I thought that was pretty cool, although Gunny Horn could do the honors to Kurokawa via 13.5" colonoscopy.

I was also hoping you could delete my DD-163 .png version that won't show a preview. I managed to get a separate .jpg version up that works now. Thanks