At 11:51 AM 12/4/2009, Daryl Christensen wrote:
>The 378' Coast Guard cutters (the big white ones) have their 2 main
>"diesel" engines running JP5 fuel thru Fairbanks Morse 12 cyl with 2
>pistons/cyl vertically opposed. Similar setup..2 injectors per cyl
>at about 3000HP/ engine...

Dear Daryl,
Have you ever seen a Deltic
engine?  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier_Deltic>  The Coast
Guard would have been better off with a turbo-compound Deltic,
perhaps -- they might have been able to affort to keep buying fuel for them.

Were you an EM?

Yours,
David