[cheriz]

Thanks everybody for interesting and enlightened replies.
I cannot answer to all the e-mails at once so I’ll try to fractionate.
To Mr Graham Boak .My rather sharp retort was brought about by the impression that you implicated me in personal anti Russian bias. After you second e-mail I could see that I was wrong , and accepted the whole conversation in good spirit. I would like to know more about your library and exchange books and information.
To Mr Kurlannaiskos I am quite aware of many scientists being imprisoned at that time in Soviet Union. I could provide you with a bunch of other names who spent a few years of their lives in ‘sharashkas‘ and many who never returned . I wondering whether you know that Petlyakov himself designed his V I-100 and its derivate Pe-2 in that ‘cozy’ place? All of the above people had nothing to do with the politics and never spied on their country. Are you aware that Tupolev was accused of selling Me 109 design to Messerschmitt? The whole country was flooded with that malicious rumor . It was Stalin who single-handedly ran the unfortunate nation accusing people of the most absurd and heinous crimes and it was he who made the agreement with his spiritual buddy A.Hitler. But that is the totally different discussion and it has nothing to do with aviation . Concerning pressurized carburetors I will bring about some details in the next e mail though to answer your question as far as I know neither American or British Merlin engines were equipped with fuel injection systems there was no need for that. You have raised interesting point. This is true : Americans used British measuring system and Russians used metric. However the first few of the Tu-4 airplanes were build using British measuring .All of the equipment was acquired abroad and airplanes were copied to the absolutely last details including internal painting . A few simple souls were arrested mentioning British system in casual conversation or as a joke . Later production was converted to metric system and that resulted in to a heavier aircrafts with somewhat shorter range.
Greetings Cheriz.