Picture of the day

bush1 said:
No, a Ramjet and a Pulse jet are two separate engine types. The Pulsejet has shutters on the front end that keeps the flame and thrust from going forward (back firing) out of the air intake. The Ramjet has no shutters and uses forward speed to keep the flame going out the back end. Crude description but basically that,s the difference.
Click to expand...

OK, thanks
 
RMXC51 said:
Have a look at the nose of a Blenheim IV - vulnerable AND cramped!
Click to expand...

True, but GREAT 0-60 times:

MkInoseconvertedtocar.jpg
 


48th Highlanders at the Horse Palace CNE - leaving for War 1939

Got this off a terrific FB page called Vintage Toronto where people post old pictures of the city and it's inhabitants.
 
RMXC51 said:

No, this. The Bolingbroke was a variant. Played in one all the time as a kid, now its front of a hotel on the #1 hwy in Brandon
Click to expand...

That plane is in Nanton at there aviation museum in alberta. Hard to believe they fit in those planes back then. Serious tuff guys back then the metal is thin bullets would rip right through it. They make the rest of us look like b!t5h3s.
 
Nelson84 said:
That plane is in Nanton at their aviation museum in Alberta.
Click to expand...

Here's Nanton's Bolingbroke:

637762.jpg


And the one from the CWH, being restored to flying condition from the corpses of eight Canadian built Mk. 4's, gathered from farms around Winnipeg in the 1980's:

7827864382_1b31b3e9ed_z.jpg



I'm told that scalloped nose was an effort to improve pilot visibility forward. It's sure distinctive:

blenheim-cwh-1.jpg


And because I've never seen one, here's a wartime example on floats:

bolingbroke-7.jpg
 
Fascinating picture. A few hours previous they were trying desparately to kill each other. The Germans don't yet realize just how lucky they are.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom