Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)
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Brother D said:
First ever flight on a 787 (Dreamliner).
Powerplant is a work of art - I have a small JP fan blade in my lounge, I'd love one of these blades, but pretty sure:
a: Would have trouble getting it in the car
b: Sister D would have a fit
c: I could not afford it...
I think that the whole aircraft is beautiful.Powerplant is a work of art - I have a small JP fan blade in my lounge, I'd love one of these blades, but pretty sure:
a: Would have trouble getting it in the car
b: Sister D would have a fit
c: I could not afford it...
Flying can opener. Hurricane IID fitted with two 40mm Vickers S gun. Very successful against German armour with this armament so I read.
Also, Wellington Mk II prototype with dorsal mounted Vickers S gun turret. Looks like a portly chap struggling with his press ups. Why would they need such a big gun in the dorsal position? Wouldn't multiple machine guns be better against fighters?
Also, Wellington Mk II prototype with dorsal mounted Vickers S gun turret. Looks like a portly chap struggling with his press ups. Why would they need such a big gun in the dorsal position? Wouldn't multiple machine guns be better against fighters?
In the same category, on the other side: the Ju-87 G "Kannonenvogel".
it was equiped with two 37mm anti armor cannon which made it very slow and not very manoeuverable. However in the hands of someone like Rudel, it became a very effective anti-tank weapon to the point that Stalin wrote a special bounty for the one-legged (later may be) pilot. He ended the war with 2500 missions, more than 500 tanks destroyed (and a Cruiser)
And even bigger, the Henschel Hs129 with a 75 mm cannon. At the time it was employed the Lufwaffe did not have enough air cover for this one to be effective.
i was reading an article about the B-25 with the cannon. Apparently it was manually loaded and the smell and gases inside after firing a few shots were tough to bear for the crew. Also they had to get rid of the co-pilot to make room for all this which in the Pacific was a serious issue.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/3/22/1195158/-B...
Never heard about that experimental P51 with two recoiless guns but looks nice and surely not awesome to fly as most of these heavy loaded airplanes.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/3/22/1195158/-B...
Never heard about that experimental P51 with two recoiless guns but looks nice and surely not awesome to fly as most of these heavy loaded airplanes.
Scotland's Bomber, the Beardmore Inflexible. 48m wingspan more than the B-29 Superfortress. Max speed 109 mph, underpowered. Royal Air Force declined this one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beardmore_Inflexible
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beardmore_Inflexible
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