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    New unknown item

    So a bomb sight? The Planes of Fame museum have several aircraft with bomb sights on them.
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    Girls and Aircraft - Volume II

    That man had more discipline than I ever had. I would have asked for time off, lived a healthy life to maintain maximum energy, gotten fired, borrowed money to keep paying that rent.
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    Girls and Aircraft - Volume II

    And yet I’m intrigued. On a darker side long ago I had a friend whose younger brother was mentally handicapped, but very handsome. The holiday resort had several real estate conventions or such and was packed with females. They would bring the poor (age 17 or so) boy to their rooms then just...
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    Girls and Aircraft - Volume II

    Imagine the intensity of being a male at a factory packed with ladies and most men away. The mind wanders.
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    Armored Glass

    Scotty from Star Trek brought it? I remain skeptical.
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    Armored Glass

    Astounding that in that time they could arrange glass to withstand 20 mm. I’m guessing borosilicate glass with celluloid sheets separating them?
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    Fieseler Reichenberg Re IV (Fi 103)

    I thought these were development test aircraft? Did they even have a landing skid?
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    P-51 with a pair of buzzbomb engines attached?

    A while back I saw a Ukrainian test drone with a pulse motor - the idea being that it would fly fast, not far, and be cheaper than a small turbojet. Did the project get anywhere?
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    P-51 with a pair of buzzbomb engines attached?

    Clearly these make sense only on unmanned aircraft.
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    Ki44-II Shoki 47th Sentai (Sakamoto) wing guns

    I can’t imagine anyone surviving a ramming of B-29 with so many guns pointed at you and the impact energy and so on. I can guess you try to break tail control surfaces so the bomber becomes crippled?
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    WW II airframe G limits

    Around 1974 my father obtained full blueprints of the Bucker Jungman. Purely for novelty, a few engineers at Air Canada ran a stress model (this was a lot of work to load up n the wing and other structures). They came back with +9/ -6 G endurance and rupture was well above but to forget those...
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    Seeking parts to flight goggles Lancaster.

    I am always amazed at the knowledge of this community!
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    Seeking parts to flight goggles Lancaster.

    Seeking parts to flight goggles Lancaster. These goggles belonged to F.O. Hebert, "J-14530. The glass lens are missing and one nut. Might anyone know where to obtain them?
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    Girls and Aircraft - Volume II

    I was thinking from a battle damage perspective that rupture if one side or tube wouldn’t cause loss in both but thinking about it the crew would switch to 100% O2 and plan descent. So no problem if a hole on one end appeared. Unless of course you were in the tube and launched.
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    Girls and Aircraft - Volume II

    That is awesome. I assume pressure tight doors at each end.
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