I would be interested to know....

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
08/06/2019 at 16:01 • Filed to: None

....where that !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! got shared to. It’s got almost 4k views, and I know there aren’t 4k people on Oppo who are that interested in obscure old airplanes.

DISCUSSION (26)

E90M3 > ttyymmnn
08/06/2019 at 16:06

Pretty sure For Sweeden’s bot is that interested in old air planes.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn
08/06/2019 at 16:07

there aren’t 4k people on Oppo who are that interested in obscure old airplanes

MY 3000 ALTERNATE PERSONALITIES AND I BID YOU GOOD DAY!

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
08/06/2019 at 16:08

Kinja'd!!!

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn
08/06/2019 at 16:12

Sounds to me like the performance increase over the B-29 was just too modest for the extra complexity. One thing about radial engines, they’re really reliable and durable. And the air cooling means that you won’t be crippled by a water leak.

I’d imagine that operating from packed coral and sand airstrips in the South Pacific wouldn’t be too kind to complex V engines.

facw > ttyymmnn
08/06/2019 at 16:20

It’s got almost 4k views, and I know there aren’t 4k people on Oppo who are that interested in obscure old airplanes.

You don’t know how many times I refresh pages when I’m bored and trying to avoid working...

ttyymmnn > Ash78, voting early and often
08/06/2019 at 16:20

As I said, it was really more of a “let’s see if this works just in case” scenario. It’s my understanding, though, that they were having a hell of a time with the Wright radials, and it took some time to get it ironed out.

I find it interesting how the Americans were so much more invested in radials than inlines. Or at least it seems so, when you look at the great American fighters, with the exception of the Mustang and Lighting coming immediately to mind. All the bombers were radials. As you say, there might be a slightly more powerful solution out there, but the radials just go. And, as a fighter pilot, it’s nice to have that huge disc of steel in front of you.

ttyymmnn > facw
08/06/2019 at 16:21

You’ll go blind.

f86sabre > ttyymmnn
08/06/2019 at 16:31

Radials were also scalable. Need more power? Toss another bank or two on there. With V engines you are kind of stuck unless you do some gymnastics. The are also compact considering the power.

benjrblant > ttyymmnn
08/06/2019 at 16:31

I’ve noticed that kinja stuff is coming up in more news feed sources, e.g. AMP, google now, etc. It’s possible that your article contained enough of the right keywords for it to appear in a select few feeds that got it a bunch of clicks.

jimz > ttyymmnn
08/06/2019 at 16:33

I know there aren’t 4k people on Oppo who are that interested in obscure old airplanes.

I am, especially concerning engines that ended up in these:

Kinja'd!!!

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn
08/06/2019 at 16:43

It looks that post is still pinned to the Oppo sidebar. I’ve had that happen to a couple of mine over the years that end up with like 2-6k views instead of a hundred or two like most of my posts. I think posts that get pinned to the sidebar have a way of getting picked up by crawlers indexing things. A google search for the XB-39 has your article as the 2nd result (or 3rd if I use a private window in a different browser) .

ttyymmnn > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
08/06/2019 at 16:45

What do you mean by, “picked up by a crawler?”

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn
08/06/2019 at 16:51

As in, a search engine found it and indexed it.

ttyymmnn > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
08/06/2019 at 16:52

So it registers a hit every time somebody searches for “XB-39?” Because I can’t believe that there are that many people searching for an obscure airplane.

7:07 > ttyymmnn
08/06/2019 at 16:52

Kinja'd!!!

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn
08/06/2019 at 16:56

I could imagine the result comes up in searches for other things that include some variation of xb-39, or where that is part of some larger search phrase . The internet is big place. I would guess that kinja is only counting actual page view where someone, or some bot, clicked through.

ttyymmnn > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
08/06/2019 at 16:58

Thanks.

facw > ttyymmnn
08/06/2019 at 17:12

So I’ve looked through old posts, and it looks like this is my most viewed post (at 2.5k): STOVL/VTOL Aircraft Ranked

I don’t know where that traffic came from, but I can’t blame them, jump jets, tilt rotors, etc. are cool.

ttyymmnn > facw
08/06/2019 at 17:23

I wrote this one about supercharging a year ago as I was trying to work something out for a post , and it’s since garnered 6.3k views. I have no idea why, but as somebody suggested in this thread , it likely got picked up by a search bot. I don’t really know what that means, but it would be interesting if you were to do a Google on “XB-39" and see where my post falls in the results.

Jayvincent > ttyymmnn
08/06/2019 at 22:43

Also has keyword “mustang” which is always good for search hits! If you k eep bringing the unwashed to Oppo we’ll have to fumigate again. you want trolls? cause this is how you get trolls! be careful with your keywords and search t erms, sheeple, it’s a dangerous internet out there!

RacinBob > Ash78, voting early and often
08/06/2019 at 23:36

Ditto the ttyy mmnn comment. The original Wright engine was a nightmare. The Wright radial was killing more crews than the Japanese. The XB-39 was a practical solution to a real problem. It was just too late and sunk cost and foreseeable end to the war made it just too late to be worth it .

See. https://www.historynet.com/superbombers-achilles-heel.htm

RacinBob > ttyymmnn
08/06/2019 at 23:43

Congrats on the 4k views. Always good stuff..

ttyymmnn > RacinBob
08/06/2019 at 23:52

Thanks, but I’m not convinced those are actual views. Might just be search hits. Or something. I’m not really sure how this whole internet thing works.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > ttyymmnn
08/07/2019 at 12:12

Sometimes I think the kinja masters use our posts in addition to the oppo blog as a test bed for their software. Your post is currently #3 when I google XB-39. Impressive.

ttyymmnn > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
08/07/2019 at 12:16

And, as I said, I can’t believe that many people are reading it. As others have pointed out, though, it includes hot words like Mustang and Lightning, which are much more searched than obscure variants of the B-29.

user314 > 7:07
08/07/2019 at 13:31

“ Utini!”