Picture of the day

[Dark Alley Dan]

One wonders if there isn't just a little acid in the water cooler over at Piaggio. Here's the P.16 from way back:

Dig that crazy tailgun position:

 

[Bubba Yugga]

1.3 million is not much. The avionics in it would account for much of that.

Were both engines at Max TBO? Even then, 1.3 sounds low.

Crown Asset's had a way of cutting spars on everything. Probably someone already had the sawzall out when told "Dude, this thing's civil registered..."

 

[Sharps '74]

One wonders if there isn't just a little acid in the water cooler over at Piaggio. Here's the P.16 from way back:

Dig that crazy tailgun position:

A strange compilation of beauty and fugliness with a tail stinger!

 

[DaveF]

A strange compilation of beauty and fugliness with a tail stinger!

Probably designed for strafing Ethiopian troops during Mussolini's empire building attempt.

 

[Ed Smurf]

Probably designed for strafing Ethiopian troops during Mussolini's empire building attempt.

Also a good place from which to launch poison gas canisters....which they did.

 

[diopter]

At first I said to myself , what are they sitting on?

 

[diopter]

Re: Piaggo P.16, reminds me of

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Re: Piaggo P.16, reminds me of

Haw! May well have been the inspiration.

The Italians were goofy for trimotors. I wonder why. Hardly anyone else was. Ford and Junkers pop immediately to mind, but I can't think of who else went that direction aside from Italian makers...

 

[diopter]

Trimotors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimotor

 

[bush1]

Trimotors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimotor

Also Douglas with the DC-10 and MD-11 as well as Lockheed with the L-1011 but I doubt if there will ever be another one off the drawing board.

 

[bogusiii]

At first I said to myself , what are they sitting on?

And then it came you you...a magic carpet.

 

[donor]

Haw! May well have been the inspiration.

The Italians were goofy for trimotors. I wonder why. Hardly anyone else was. Ford and Junkers pop immediately to mind, but I can't think of who else went that direction aside from Italian makers...

If you need power for relatively heavy aircraft 3 engines make perfect sense.In late 20s and early 30s very few aero engines had good HP/weight ratio to be fiscally acceptable.Ju-52/3m was one of very few trimotors that actually made money and it sold very well until DC-2 and DC-3 came along with all new technology.With them 3 motors went out of vogue until passenger jets came along.

Junkers K30-military version of G24 airliner.Junkers had a firm set up in Sweden acting as a sales outlet for civil and military aircraft.Machines produced in Germany were flown to Sweden where they were armed,test flown,disassembled if necessary and shipped abroad.Unfortunately for Junkers his products were expensive when all governments were short on cash.K30 didn't sell well but W33 and W34 did.Cheaper and much more versatile.

 

[Ganderite]

Bottom picture. Leading edge looks droopy. Slats?

 

[old_man]

Bottom picture. Leading edge looks droopy. Slats?

I believe it is a combination of the shape of the wing as well as the way the light is hitting it.

 

[donor]

Hugo Junkers was experimenting with a lot of things,shape and profile of all metal wings was one of them.Great most of his research was in vain since advances in aviation aluminium metallurgy rendered them all but useless.

 

[ipscgraz]

Bottom picture. Leading edge looks droopy. Slats?

Looks like wing wash-out; you can see it in the upper pic as well. The wing is built "twisted" so that the outer portion of the wing, with the ailerons, is still "flying" when the wing root stalls.

 

[Rob]

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

That's neat. Guess the urge to protect one's eyes is strong.

Still, gotta be a bit of a PITA to fight a war while looking through a bead curtain. Or wearing a stove:

 

[Grizzly Adams]

That's neat. Guess the urge to protect one's eyes is strong.

Still, gotta be a bit of a PITA to fight a war while looking through a bead curtain. Or wearing a stove:

Judging by the rifle he's packing, I'll bet the date is incorrect.

Grizz

 

[Sharps '74]

Springfield Trapdoor.