Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)
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MartG said:
It's weird because everything is in just the right place, there is no concession to design over function. I therefore like to think it's a perfect flyer.That or they got one part of the design horribly wrong and had to move the rest around to stop it falling out of the sky.
MartG said:
Neither, it looks like a very low speed design. I note (wiki) that is is a French 1950s design for counter insurgency. So basically for flying slowly over Algerian rebels armed with bolt-action rifles, and dropping bombs on them. Not much use for anything else. Ayahuasca said:
MartG said:
Neither, it looks like a very low speed design. I note (wiki) that is is a French 1950s design for counter insurgency. So basically for flying slowly over Algerian rebels armed with bolt-action rifles, and dropping bombs on them. Not much use for anything else. MartG said:
Looks weird because of the very slim axial engine, you'd expect a wider piston engine in that era. The Bastan (and Astazou) were particularly slim turboprop/shafts. Compare that to say the very successful PT6 which had a seemingly odd reverse flow architecture so was a much "fatter" and therefore shorter engine. Turbomeca pretty much stuck to axial flow for all their engines.
OscarJ said:
DavieBNL said:
Did you always park them in number order Oscar? Rarely saw an RAF sqn that tidy unless HM was visting!
Lined up ready to go out to Ark. 1974/1975. I should add it’s my fathers logbook - not mine! He is way cooler than me 
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