Workers checking a newly completed PV-1 aircraft, Lockheed factory, Burbank, California, United States, Aug 1943

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Caption     Workers checking a newly completed PV-1 aircraft, Lockheed factory, Burbank, California, United States, Aug 1943 ww2dbase
WW2-Era Location Name Burbank, California, United States
Date  Aug 1943
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Source    ww2dbaseUnited States National Archives
Identification Code   ARC 520736
 
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Visitor Submitted Comments

1. Anonymous says:
13 Jan 2016 04:56:46 AM

Very likely they're turning the prop to pull oil from the bottom cylinders, before starting the engine.
2. AnonymRich Millerous says:
10 May 2024 06:53:35 AM

Pulling the prop through to assure oil is spread to the top of the engine. The upper cylinders of a radial engine would drain when shutdown, so a crew would rotate the prop several revolutions to get some oil back up. Magnetos off so it would not start, and care to assure that cylinder compression did not cause the prop to "kick" while anything was in the way.

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