Recent content by wrenchedmyspanner

I continue to marvel at the kinds of stuff I learn from this forum. Keep up the great work!

This may be of help: Lotfernrohr 7

Is a radial out of the question?

Ah, this was in addition to the disastrous uniform change!

DTICs are a fantastic but too often overlooked source of information. (Provided they're not classified ;) )

Technically, WP was a chemical weapon.

It's my understanding that this design (also known as the J37) never really went anywhere. Neither did the turboprop derived from it, the T35. A few working prototypes were produced but the J37 at least, was determined to be under powered.

Thank you for a link to the artist. His stuff is new to me and I'm always interested in discovering new aviation artists (new to me at least).

I am aware of one particular incident on October 14th, 1959. A T-33 jet trainer began having engine problems. In an effort to make it back to Wright-Patterson (Dayton, Ohio) the pilot tried to jettison the wing-tip fuel tanks to lighten the aircraft. One of the fuel tanks, weighing some 1400...

Fascinating!

Thanks MIflyer, you're a veritable font of information! If my memory is correct, and please correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the US Navy actually limit testing to only two torpedoes? One was a dud but the other exploded normally; a 50-50 result. So the Navy purchased torpedoes knowing that at...

A minor error and doesn't affect the article: the Boeing F-32 lost out to the Lockheed F-35.

Isn't that a character from Lil' Abner?

That's hilarious and fantastic!

This is probably a dumb question but knowing how poorly those torpedoes performed, would it have stood a better chance of exploding with a VERY late release where the torpedo might (hopefully) slam into the side of the intended floating target? A foolish idea I'm sure since I have not an inkling...