Recent content by MarkinTex

Yes, thank you, that was the intent. And with that intent in mind, early variants of aircraft, that, in later variants went on to be workhorses for the duration of the war, would qualify. For instance, the B-17B through D were interwar designs. An I know that all of these variants came out...

Not necessarily so. The UK had handed over Iceland to the US for just such a contingency, and from there we could have at least retaken the UK, and we could have supplied the Soviets from Alaska.

A big part of why Barbarossa wasn't going well (and why the Brits had been able to hang on till '42) was Lend-Lease, and if the US hadn't entered the war, the Brits would have never been able to do anything in North Africa which means no Italian invasion, and would not have been able to...

I'd have to give it to the C-47 by a longshot. It was the ability to quickly move troops and supplies all around the world that turned the tide of the war, and though the transport was an intermodal effort with vehicles from liberty ships to Deuce and a Halfs being standouts, since we are...

There are probably many more I could add to my list, but for now I'll add another I just thought of, the Westland PV-3 , pretty much just because one was the first plane to fly over Mount Everest (along with a PV-6, or Westland Wallace), back in 1933. Quite a feat for the time, and quite an...

Wow, thank you GreenKnight, that is excellent information, exactly what I was looking for and then some!

Well, "interwar" for a US aircraft can go all the way up to late 1941, since we dragged our feet about getting into it until December of that year. Most of the aircraft we had at the start of our involvement in the war were "interwar" in technology because we hadn't been doing that great a job...

Yeah, absolutely, aircraft introduced in the interwar period that went on to serve in WW2 qualify, at least their early versions. I think of the B-17 A through E variants as interwar aircraft (even though I think some Es served in the early years, and maybe even a few Ds). I especially think of...

Nice pictures, you can really see that first operational afterburner in the oversized exhaust!

Here are mine (I'm partial to the Americans) Martin B-10 - I have an unassembled model of this in my garage, one of the reasons I haven't gotten around to building it (besides laziness) is I can't decide what color scheme to paint it. I know blue fuselage/yellow flight surfaces is most iconic...

I've been to the USAF Museum in Dayton. Blows away any other aerospace museum I've ever seen, including National Air and Space Museum, both on the Mall and Udvar-Hazy. The B-10 and the open gondola from which Joseph Kittinger skydived from 103,000 feet back in 1960 were the two most exciting...

Hi everyone, I joined this forum because I couldn't find an answer for a question I've long had, and thought this group might be able to answer. Is there a name for the first generation - early second generation fuselage layout where the jet intake takes up the entire nose of the aircraft? Like...