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Dark Alley Dan
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The ultimate piston engine development from Sir Geoffrey
Oh, lord - the Hornet. Such a beautiful thing. So much streamlining. But the ME 323 Gigant was a feckin' deathtrap.
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Frequently the tow for the 321 .
The Rhone engines on the 323 were used with the belief that the French engine would ease the demand for front line power plants. Kind of faulty logic as they used similar materials and fuel.
* you beat me to it with the video * The Hornet is a very photogenic a/c. Unfortunate no complete units survive.
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Dark Alley Dan
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I'm pleased to see a pic of the HE111Z. Not many available.
That must have been a handful to operate, but easier than three ME110s cabled together like feckin' sled dogs...
That must have been a handful to operate, but easier than three ME110s cabled together like feckin' sled dogs...
"On 22 April 1943, a formation of 27 fully loaded Me 323s was being escorted across the Sicilian Straits by Bf 109s of JG 27 when it was intercepted by seven squadrons of Spitfires and P-40s. Twenty one of the Me 323s were lost while three of the P-40s were shot down by the escorts."
The design of the aircraft was sound, and it was known to be fairly rugged. But they were just easy targets for enemy aircraft. Of the 213 made (198 production 323s, and 15 converted 321 gliders), not one survived the war.
In fairness to the design of the aircraft itself, when any large air transport craft flew without air superiority, losses were astronomically high.
Dark Alley Dan
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Hanging an engine on a B-25.
eheheh
And two years later they were massacring them in cold blood to the tune of 9000+ on one island alone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_the_Acqui_Division
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Dark Alley Dan
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Man, that is a VERY early B-17. And many of those ladies must have been dancers. Nice pins!
Didn't Willow Run poop out a fresh B24 every hour or some other crazy rate? For a confessed nazi sympathizer, Mr. Ford was sure good about producing the tools to smack them down.
Prelude to the ugliness RRCo. mentions in his post above: Italian troops being disarmed by the 2nd Fallschirmjager Division:
Happier times:
Didn't Willow Run poop out a fresh B24 every hour or some other crazy rate? For a confessed nazi sympathizer, Mr. Ford was sure good about producing the tools to smack them down.
Prelude to the ugliness RRCo. mentions in his post above: Italian troops being disarmed by the 2nd Fallschirmjager Division:
Happier times:
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The Blohm und Voss BV238:
Only one ever made. Shot up and destroyed by the Yanks, which was very fair.
B&V made a series of very pretty seaplanes. Here's the BV222 Wiking, in RAF colours after der Krieg:
Only one ever made. Shot up and destroyed by the Yanks, which was very fair.
B&V made a series of very pretty seaplanes. Here's the BV222 Wiking, in RAF colours after der Krieg:
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That's not Sopwith Camel.That's Sopwith 7F.1 Snipe E8015 flown by Lt. Mulcair A Flight of No. 43 Sqn RAF.
http://www.cbrnp.com/profiles/quarter1/sopwith-aviation.htm
Lost of models made of this plane if you Google "Sopwith Snipe E8015".
