WWII War Birds - pics and video
- Thread starter Sharps '63
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- chilliwack BC.
that Lanc with the Gloster Meteor engines looks pretty damn slick. pardon the pun
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Very nice experimental...Most companies tried different engines and other parts on their aircraft just to see how it changed performance, crew comfort and as a plan B incase of a plan A failure. Examples that come to mind are the Merlin engines been fitted to the A-36 to become the P-51 and the Malcolm Hood been fitted to the same aircraft. The reason this B-17 seems to be undergunned is that it is built on an E model which had no under chin guns and usually only one or 2 guns mounted in the side windows of the forward nose section, also missing is the radio operators top firing gun and the waist guns have had a window insert put in place. Once they went into action ground crews added more in different locations throughout the aircraft. You can tell it is an E model by the green house glass on the nose and the upper gun turret.
Dark Alley Dan
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God, two Lancs in formation. Makes me tearful to watch.
Here's one you don't hear about much - the Miles M.30 X-Minor
More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_M.30
Here's one you don't hear about much - the Miles M.30 X-Minor
More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_M.30
- Location
- chilliwack BC.
that thing would be really cool, with a couple of Merlins in it.
Dark Alley Dan
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Probably the best known example of "re-engining" we know is the poor old abused 109. We begin with a proper DB powered 109:
Then we see what it looks like when Merlin powered, thanks to Spanish ingenuity:
Not pretty. But the one that wins the prize for "Jesus, what have you done?" is the Czech built, Junkers-Jumo-powered Avia S-199:
SEROUS controllability issues. Too much torque for the airframe. Lotta unwary pilots crashed the hell out of these.
Then we see what it looks like when Merlin powered, thanks to Spanish ingenuity:
Not pretty. But the one that wins the prize for "Jesus, what have you done?" is the Czech built, Junkers-Jumo-powered Avia S-199:
SEROUS controllability issues. Too much torque for the airframe. Lotta unwary pilots crashed the hell out of these.
Dark Alley Dan
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Gladiators getting a drink:
There are a few left. Shuttleworth and TFC each fly one:
There's another in Norway and one more in Malta. The Malta bird is "Faith" (N5520), one of the "three virtues" Gladiators that protected Malta before there was anything newer or better:
N5520 in 1940:
and what remains today:
There are a few left. Shuttleworth and TFC each fly one:
There's another in Norway and one more in Malta. The Malta bird is "Faith" (N5520), one of the "three virtues" Gladiators that protected Malta before there was anything newer or better:
N5520 in 1940:
and what remains today:
Dark Alley Dan
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Another oddball - the CAC Boomerang:
Three flyable examples remain, in Australia, naturally:
More here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAC_Boomerang
Three flyable examples remain, in Australia, naturally:
More here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAC_Boomerang
This happened yesterday.......
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34250794
I got to see (and hear) a couple of Spitfires and the Lancaster last weekend as they flew over my house, going from one show to another-still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
Must have been one hell of a sight to see 40 old warbirds up together.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34250794
I got to see (and hear) a couple of Spitfires and the Lancaster last weekend as they flew over my house, going from one show to another-still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
Must have been one hell of a sight to see 40 old warbirds up together.
Dark Alley Dan
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Finnish Blenheim:
And yep, that many Merlins in full song overhead. "If erection lasts longer than four hours..."
And yep, that many Merlins in full song overhead. "If erection lasts longer than four hours..."
And if you fail to get an erection, your Canadian citizenship should be revoked. Even if you're dead!
How about the Avro Manchester, predecessor of the Lancaster.
Good two engine bomber saddled with horribly unreliable RR Vulture Engines.
Cure, make wings wide enough to accept 4 Merlins.
First Lancs were Converted Manchesters.
http://legendsintheirowntime.com/Content/1942/Av_GB_4208_Abroad_Vulture.html
Good two engine bomber saddled with horribly unreliable RR Vulture Engines.
Cure, make wings wide enough to accept 4 Merlins.
First Lancs were Converted Manchesters.
http://legendsintheirowntime.com/Content/1942/Av_GB_4208_Abroad_Vulture.html
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Another oddball - the CAC Boomerang:
Three flyable examples remain, in Australia, naturally:
More here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAC_Boomerang
Basically it was a fighter built out of Harvard parts. The trainer version was the Wirraway. Got to love them Ozzies.
Dark Alley Dan
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NAS Atlantic City, 1945:
I'll take that one, and that one, and two of those...
I'll take that one, and that one, and two of those...
- Location
- chilliwack BC.
one of each please! 
Dark Alley Dan
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...and an even dozen to go, please.
Castle Bromwich, 1944.
You'd be looking at millions and millions of dollars right there, were that line running today.
Castle Bromwich, 1944.
You'd be looking at millions and millions of dollars right there, were that line running today.
