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Warplane Art / Re: Connie...
« on: July 08, 2010, 09:37:55 AM »
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Warplane Art / Re: Connie...
« on: July 08, 2010, 09:36:30 AM »
I see this is version with tip tanks. At Aviodrome we have one without tip tanks.
It was restored in the USA and flown to Holland some years ago. Here are some shots I took of this beatiful plane. I still hope to see it flying someday!
It was restored in the USA and flown to Holland some years ago. Here are some shots I took of this beatiful plane. I still hope to see it flying someday!
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Warplane Art / Re: Irbitis I-12 single seat fighter
« on: July 05, 2010, 11:03:15 AM »
In fact this single seat version of the I-12 was a fighter trainer rather than a fighter!
For VEF it was a good excercise for the later I-16 fighter. Both were designs of Karlis Irbitis.
Irbitis was clearly inspired by the French Caudron racers!!
For VEF it was a good excercise for the later I-16 fighter. Both were designs of Karlis Irbitis.
Irbitis was clearly inspired by the French Caudron racers!!
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Combat Warplanes / Re: Consolidate B-24 Liberator
« on: July 03, 2010, 09:25:33 AM »
It is interesting to note that, just like the B-17, a B-24 was converted into a heavy armed escort 'fighter'. Plane with serial no.41-11822 did not achieve operational service for same reason as with B-17: when escorting empty bombers back to base it was too slow!
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Warplane Art / Re: Shooting Star
« on: June 11, 2010, 03:48:11 PM »
Could find noting! However, attached link gives an excellent overview of his life and the planes he flew: http://usfighter.tripod.com/bong.htm
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Warplane Art / Re: Shooting Star
« on: June 11, 2010, 02:57:40 PM »
American WW-II air ace Richard Bong was killed on August 6, 1945 in an early type P-80 at take off near Burbank, California. Flying a Lockheed P-38 Lightning Bong shot down 40 Japanes planes .
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Warplane Art / Re: Boeing B-29
« on: June 03, 2010, 03:10:51 PM »
Assume you'll also do 'Enola Gay' and 'Boxcar'?
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Combat Warplanes / Re: Look at this!
« on: June 02, 2010, 09:38:44 PM »
X-wing project (from Sikorsky) is from a much later date: nineties! These Lockheed projects had no provision for rotor to produce lift after rotation was stopped. As you see rotors were supposed to be placed in minimum drag position (or even retracted) and NOT in a maximum lift position!
Photo caption of stowed rotor project was very specific with number of passengers (20) but with the remark that larger version could carry up to 100 passengers. With these projects introduced after cancelation of the Fairey Rotodyne it seems Rotodyne had basically all the things -and more- as offered by the Lockheed projects!!
Photo caption of stowed rotor project was very specific with number of passengers (20) but with the remark that larger version could carry up to 100 passengers. With these projects introduced after cancelation of the Fairey Rotodyne it seems Rotodyne had basically all the things -and more- as offered by the Lockheed projects!!
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Combat Warplanes / Re: Look at this!
« on: June 02, 2010, 09:03:34 PM »
Photo is an official news release from the Lockheed-California Newsbureau and shows what they call a HYBRID 'HELI-PLANE' cargo carrier. Plan was introduced by Dr. Phillip Carlson, research-director-aircraft of the Lockheed-California-Company. It would be able to take off and land helicopter-style using small and unpaved sites. In forward flight the two-bladed rotor would be stopped in minimum drag position and the load carried by the vehicle's fixed wing. It would be cheaper to operate than a convential helicopter because cruise efficiency would approach that of a fixed wing airplane. Gross weight would be 70,000 lbs. It could carry a 25,000 lbs payload at a cruise speed of 150 knots. Range would be 800 miles.
This very peculiar combination of Chinook and Hercules never progressed beyound the project stage.
Lockheed had similar plans for a future 'heliplane' that could stop rotor after vertical take off and stow the blades into the fuselage. Artist impression shows a project for 20 passengers.
Also this never materialized!
This very peculiar combination of Chinook and Hercules never progressed beyound the project stage.
Lockheed had similar plans for a future 'heliplane' that could stop rotor after vertical take off and stow the blades into the fuselage. Artist impression shows a project for 20 passengers.
Also this never materialized!
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Combat Warplanes / Look at this!
« on: June 01, 2010, 10:03:49 PM »
What is it? Is it a Hercules or a Chinook?
Tomorrow the answer and NO, it is NOT an invention of myself!
Illustration is an official press release of a big aircraft company!
Tomorrow the answer and NO, it is NOT an invention of myself!
Illustration is an official press release of a big aircraft company!
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Warplane Art / Re: Me262 night fight
« on: May 24, 2010, 05:07:50 PM »
Illustration is fully worth a book cover!!
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Warplane Art / Re: Junkers Ju 87
« on: May 08, 2010, 04:15:01 PM »
There also was Ju-87 with folding wings and arrester hook for use on Graf Zeppelin!!
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Warplane Art / Re: Junkers Ju 87
« on: May 08, 2010, 01:54:23 PM »
Yes, twin fin caused tail flutter and 1st prototype crashed because of this!
Tail unit was completely redesigned.
Ju-87V1 was powered by a 640 hp R.R. Kestrel engine driving a two-bladed propeller and it was fitted witout the later wing dive brakes.
(info: W. Green, Famous bombers of the Second World War 1st volume, Macdonald 1959)
Tail unit was completely redesigned.
Ju-87V1 was powered by a 640 hp R.R. Kestrel engine driving a two-bladed propeller and it was fitted witout the later wing dive brakes.
(info: W. Green, Famous bombers of the Second World War 1st volume, Macdonald 1959)
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Warplane Art / Re: Junkers Ju 87
« on: May 08, 2010, 01:12:09 PM »
Looks like one of the early prototypes fitted with trousers. Hope you are aware that 1st prototype had twin vertical fins.
Would also be interesting to make profile of machine captured by RAF!
Would also be interesting to make profile of machine captured by RAF!
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Warplane Art / Re: Dornier Do 24
« on: May 02, 2010, 10:43:38 PM »
Sorry no.1, but it must be Das Boot!
CM#IV is one of the machines built during the war by Aviolanda at Papendrecht, the Netherlands. It was operated by KFlGr.3/106 based at Schellingwoude near Amsterdam. Plane was damaged on 23 Aug 1943 and finally sunk during a rescue operation of two Britisch pilots, but not before crew was picked up by two other Do-24's and a 'Schnellboot'.
(Reference: 'Dornier Do-24' by Pieter van Wijngaarden and Prudent Staal;1992 Bonneville Publishers-Bergen, the Netherlands.).
CM#IV is one of the machines built during the war by Aviolanda at Papendrecht, the Netherlands. It was operated by KFlGr.3/106 based at Schellingwoude near Amsterdam. Plane was damaged on 23 Aug 1943 and finally sunk during a rescue operation of two Britisch pilots, but not before crew was picked up by two other Do-24's and a 'Schnellboot'.
(Reference: 'Dornier Do-24' by Pieter van Wijngaarden and Prudent Staal;1992 Bonneville Publishers-Bergen, the Netherlands.).