Airborne Oddities of WWII

[cheddar cheese]

Why? It was a stable and effective flying platform, It could be a sort of pioneer for the modern delta wing aircraft we see today.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

and it never did fly

the picture of it in flight kind of proves it did....................

 

[cheddar cheese]

Exactly

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

It could be a sort of pioneer for the modern delta wing aircraft we see today.

the Fairey Delta was the main fore runner of the modern deltas..................

 

[cheddar cheese]

Was that before or after the pancake?

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

after, and no, the designers took no insparation from the flying pancake..............

 

[cheddar cheese]

But there is the Ho-229....thats gotta be the pioneer.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

that was a flying wing, not a delta wing................

 

[cheddar cheese]

I think that when the B2 Bomber was being designed the Ho-229 was being looked at for inspiration.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

yes it was.............

 

[Anonymous]

and it never did fly

the picture of it in flight kind of proves it did....................

Acutally I believe that's the wooden prototype. The actual all-metal F5U prototypes were, I think, never flown or only flew once, and then they were scrapped as the USN was interested in jets.

Again, I think this design had more promise for a high-speed bomber than a fighter.

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Lunatic

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

even if it flew once it still flew.........

 

[cheddar cheese]

Yeah...

 

[Anonymous]

I'm just surprised they didn't try to fit jet engines to the F5U, it seems they'd fit the design quite well.

 

[cheddar cheese]

It looks like they would have on the face of it - that would have made it similar to the to the Ho-229.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

and it looks like it'd lact the fuel capacity to support an early jet enigne............

 

[cheddar cheese]

Dont see how you worked that one out.

 

[Anonymous]

and it looks like it'd lact the fuel capacity to support an early jet enigne............

??? The volume within that wing is huge. Look at the pics carefully, the wing is quite thick for a lot of its span.

 

[cheddar cheese]

Exactly

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

yes but they wouldn't be able to fill that with fuel would they..........