Or even worse (horror of horrors!), those bloody CONSTANT SPEED propellers! Sheer bloody gadgetry!
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Or even worse (horror of horrors!), those bloody CONSTANT SPEED propellers! Sheer bloody gadgetry!It's bad enough we have to fly monoplanes and have wheels with brakes, now they want us to have those heavy, expensive bloody variable pitch propellers too.
Or even worse (horror of horrors!), those bloody CONSTANT SPEED propellers! Sheer bloody gadgetry!
I agree. Improve the canopy and you could have a USAAF Mosquito, or at least a Kawasaki Ki-45 or even a Gekko.Already the 1000+ HP Cyclones or Twin Wasps are an improvement.
I like the look of the Curtiss A-18 Shrike. Surely we can improve this design to make it a competitor in WW2. Swap in a pair of Allison inline engines?
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You can always try gliding, no big noisy thing in front that causes panic if it stops and all goes quiet.It's bad enough we have to fly monoplanes and have wheels with brakes, now they want us to have those heavy, expensive bloody variable pitch propellers too.
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But there's no fan to keep the pilot from sweating under his plexiglas bubble on a sunny day!* You'd have a pilot strike on your hands for sure.You can always try gliding, no big noisy thing in front that causes panic if it stops and all goes quiet.
But there's no fan to keep the pilot from sweating under his plexiglas bubble on a sunny day!* You'd have a pilot strike on your hands for sure.
*That WWII Schweizer TG2 I got a couple rides in as a teen was an oven with wings.
But there's no fan to keep the pilot from sweating under his plexiglas bubble on a sunny day!* You'd have a pilot strike on your hands for sure.
*That WWII Schweizer TG2 I got a couple rides in as a teen was an oven with wings.
I used to be a glider flight instructor, so if that ever happens to us, I'm PF, you can be PNF. Make sure your emergency checklist is handy and your memory items are reflexive. Sh!t happens quick.I went up in a sailplane a couple of times years ago. A Schweitzer, I believe. Most fun I had with my clothes on. I had about 2 minutes of stick time. So Wes, if I happen to be passengering with you and we lose both engines, I can help you out.
We're dead.I used to be a glider flight instructor, so if that ever happens to us, I'm PF, you can be PNF. Make sure your emergency checklist is handy and your memory items are reflexive. Sh!t happens quick.
When best glide speed is only 38 MPH (a real floater) and both vents are in the front cockpit, it doesn't do much for you back in the hell hole. Back in WII they probably figured the "old pro" instructors in back could keep their cool unaided, while the poor nugget up front needed all the help he could get.PS there are air vents to help
The TG2 (SGS2-8)'s immediate predecessor, the Schweizer SGS1-7, WAS open cockpit. My favorite was the 2-32, "the B52 of gliders".Plexiglass bubble?
How gauche. Open cockpit, lads.
That is slow. I was more used to instructing on the K13 which was no rocket ship.When best glide speed is only 38 MPH (a real floater) and both vents are in the front cockpit, it doesn't do much for you back in the hell hole. Back in WII they probably figured the "old pro" instructors in back could keep their cool unaided, while the poor nugget up front needed all the help he could get.
How gauche. Open cockpit, lads.