as the skids weren't rated to cope with that, and in an auto, that excess weight could be pickled off.
A.C.
Is this the same reason that we could carry an extra 150 lbs on the '47 G3B2A as long as it was external?
I never could work it out, nor found anyone to know, especially when the hook we had on that model was the four point lower mainframe instead of the old style swinging bar mounted on the Lord mounts.
The aircraft was identical in blades and xmon to the 3B2 except for the engine which was the wet sump instead of the dry sump, but I cannot remember the upper MAP limits on the 3B2A model separate from the 3B2 which was, from a foggy memory, .6" higher than the 3B1 with the 600 series xmon.
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