willie-pete Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 9 minutes ago, janice6 said: That is a fantastic engineering feat of simply raw power. It was incredible! For both of those airplanes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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janice6 Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 1 minute ago, Eric said: Two symbols of our nation's power. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tous Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 3 minutes ago, Eric said: The celebrated Swordfish. This is the aircraft that the British launched against the Bismark. Well done, lads. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 Think one of those was featured in a movie - SAC - starring Jimmy Stewart. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 Amazing mechanism designed to keep machine guns from cutting off the propeller blades on their own airplanes. Some tried putting armor plate on the backs of the blades in the paths of the bullets, but that didn’t work so well. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 7 minutes ago, railfancwb said: Amazing mechanism designed to keep machine guns from cutting off the propeller blades on their own airplanes. Some tried putting armor plate on the backs of the blades in the paths of the bullets, but that didn’t work so well. Garros' "deflector" method on the Morane-Salnier worked pretty well. Even in the statistically rare event of a bullet hitting a deflector it was a soft lead bullet hitting hard steel at a high angle so it didn't do any damage. But then eventually Garros got shot down and some Fokker figured out that a simple firing interrupter would work even better. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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willie-pete Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 On 9/14/2019 at 5:25 PM, railfancwb said: Think one of those was featured in a movie - SAC - starring Jimmy Stewart. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Ladies and Gentlemen...Start your engines!Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 2 hours ago, willie-pete said: Quite a bit of the budget sitting there. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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janice6 Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 17 minutes ago, Eric said: I think planes are when technology gave man the keys to the world. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jmohme Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 On 8/10/2019 at 11:51 AM, Eric said: So many things that can go wrong! Preventive maintenance or die! 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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