They had a Liberty V12 on the back of a truck and they drove the thing up to the top of Pike's Peak where the air density was low and they ran a whole bunch of experiments to see if they could restore engine performance.
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Kevin CameronHOST
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at altitude and they found that they could.
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Kevin CameronHOST
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So all of that stuff was made available to U.S. forces in World War II, particularly for bombers, which were intended to operate at high altitude.
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