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Bubba Yugga
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Y'know, Brits fancy themselves "Anglo-Saxons". You know where Saxony is, right? Yeah, they're infected too...
The Brits may have achieved the ultimate in complexity in the Napier Deltic.
On the other hand, the Yanks found a simple way of building a multi-cylinder engine. The 30-cyl Chrysler multi-bank consisted of 5 flathead 6's arranged in a radial pattern.
Dark Alley Dan
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That's an amazing device. But entirely (and sadly) old-fashioned after the invention of turboprop engines.
Here's EE227, the first turboprop-powered aircraft in history, the "Gloster-Trent Meteor":
The ol' Meteor looks pretty cool as a prop plane.
As an aside, here's EE201/G, on loan to the Yanks for something.
Here's EE227, the first turboprop-powered aircraft in history, the "Gloster-Trent Meteor":
The ol' Meteor looks pretty cool as a prop plane.
As an aside, here's EE201/G, on loan to the Yanks for something.
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looks like the unemployed Austrian painter is having one heck of a party.
Gloster Meteor Prone Position concept aircraft. On display at RAF Cosford aerospace museum (Shropshire, UK) as of 2011
A much modified Gloster Meteor F8 fighter, the "prone position/prone pilot" Meteor, was used to evaluate the effects of acceleration/inertia-induced forces while flying in a prone position. Along with the Reid and Sigrist R.S.4 "Bobsleigh", the Gloster Meteor was engaged in a proof-of-concept experimental programme that proved in practice that the difficulties in rearward visibility and ejection outweighed the advantages of sustaining higher "g" effects.
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Allied Riders of Texas
In 1944 the United Kingdom sent a Gloster Meteor EE210/G to the United States for Test and Evaluation, while the United States sent over to the United Kindom a Bell XP-59A Airacomet for Test and Evaluation.
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Allied Riders of Texas
In 1944 the United Kingdom sent a Gloster Meteor EE210/G to the United States for Test and Evaluation, while the United States sent over to the United Kindom a Bell XP-59A Airacomet for Test and Evaluation.
USAAF got the better deal.
Donny Fenn1
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Gloster Meteor Prone Position concept aircraft. On display at RAF Cosford aerospace museum (Shropshire, UK) as of 2011
A much modified Gloster Meteor F8 fighter, the "prone position/prone pilot" Meteor, was used to evaluate the effects of acceleration/inertia-induced forces while flying in a prone position. Along with the Reid and Sigrist R.S.4 "Bobsleigh", the Gloster Meteor was engaged in a proof-of-concept experimental programme that proved in practice that the difficulties in rearward visibility and ejection outweighed the advantages of sustaining higher "g" effects.
Read Eric "Winkle" Browns book "Wings on my Sleeves" he writes about test piloting all of these various contraptions. Amazing read if you're into aircraft at all.
KOREA 1951.
Here comes the BOOM.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph
When in my teens and lived in Florida my next door neighbor was a veteran of the Korean war. He was a medic and told me a few stories of his experiences. One story that stuck with me was he was in a bomb crater tending to the substantial wounds of a US soldier while the area was being overrun. A north Korean soldier ran up to the edge of the crater and pointed his rifle at him at which point he realized he was about to die. He told me he was pissed off at the situation and threw his scissors he was using in the general direction of the North Korean soldier out of frustration. The NK soldier ran off, his only explanation was the enemy must have thought he threw a grenade. He made it through that battle.
ipscgraz
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That's an amazing device. But entirely (and sadly) old-fashioned after the invention of turboprop engines.
Here's EE227, the first turboprop-powered aircraft in history, the "Gloster-Trent Meteor":
The ol' Meteor looks pretty cool as a prop plane.
I wonder why the right engine is shut down and propeller feathered...?
Dark Alley Dan
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Croatian MiG 21s?
