Best Aircraft in Many Different Roles Part II

[cheddar cheese]

Incompetent pilot?

 

[FLYBOYJ]

WHAT DIFFERENCE DOSE IT MAKE, HE'S ONLY GOING 65 MPH!

 

[trackend]

well it does make bringing your ack ack guns to bear a tad more difficult at Taranto one actually dipped his wheels in the water and nearly went arse over tit.
I just found another use for the Stringbag motorbike transporter.

 

[FLYBOYJ]

 

[cheddar cheese]

Surely riding the bike to the target would be faster than flying the plane?

 

[FLYBOYJ]

Surely riding the bike to the target would be faster than flying the plane?

 

[trackend]

No one believes me when I tell them how versatile they where Fly they where also used as personel transport (4 passangers) bit of a squeeze though

 

[FLYBOYJ]

No one believes me when I tell them how versatile they where Fly they where also used as personel transport (4 passangers) bit of a squeeze though

Oh I agree, and them being so slow but yet so successful is what amazes me!

 

[cheddar cheese]

They should have put a merlin in it....

 

[trackend]

Surely riding the bike to the target would be faster than flying the plane?

Well you may mock young Cheesy trouble is your not far wrong heres a tail from the North African campaign.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

but she could take a huge payload given she had only 730HP to her name........

 

[cheddar cheese]

Well the SAI 403 could go immensely fast with just 750hp... 8)

 

[trackend]

but she could take a huge payload given she had only 730HP to her name........

The supercharged Peggy Mk30 was rated at 775hp at 2200 revs
and her carrying capacity was down to 607sq ft of wing area which is more than a Dornier 17Z

 

[cheddar cheese]

Yes, but thats because it has 2 wings

 

[trackend]

My God I never noticed that Cheesy although there is a case where the upper wing was nearly all shot off of a Stringbag and it flew back to base OK and another that upon returning to the Carrier a aircraft fitter put his hand inside a hole that been blown in the lower wing and pulled out a foot of main spar.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

well she was a tough bird......

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I think the Stringbag was one of the most amazing aircraft for what it accomplished for what kind of aircraft she was.

 

[cheddar cheese]

Me too.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

She did away with many a Capital ship from Germany and Italy. She deffinatly earns her spot in history.

 

[mosquitoman]

I can agree with that!