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Given its massive span, I'd like to see how it's designers could create a FAA variant to fit down Ark Royal's 45ft by 22ft and 45ft by 25ft lifts. At 39 ft 3 in long, we're okay on lift length.View attachment 505782
Vickers Wellesley was no beauty. Surprisingly ungainly
Couldn't they roll them up, like a pipe line or summat?Under-wing pods hold 2000lbs of bombs. Kinda need those to be classified as a bomber. With wings folded up it wouldn't fit in the Ark Royal hangar decks
Can the wing be lifted and lowered as it passes the tower, as if saluting the captain?It is not just the wings. You only had so many feet of height between the hanger floor and the ceiling (deck above)
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The Wellesley was BIG airplane and not just in wing span.
as for the wing, without multiple folds like an origami swan or unrolling like a Goodyear inflatable plane I think you are out of luck.
It is not just the wings. You only had so many feet of height between the hanger floor and the ceiling (deck above)
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The Wellesley was BIG airplane and not just in wing span.
as for the wing, without multiple folds like an origami swan or unrolling like a Goodyear inflatable plane I think you are out of luck.
Like this maybe? Gannet AEW3View attachment 563066
The Wellesley and 20 ft more span than the Gannet. Add another fold at the Gannets wing tip with 10 feet of wing coming back down over the lower joint?
Not seen very well in the cutaway above, but there are 132 gallons of fuel in tanks midway in each wing.
Why would you want a Wellesely on an aircraft carrier?
Just as a design experiment.Not seen very well in the cutaway above, but there are 132 gallons of fuel in tanks midway in each wing.
Why would you want a Wellesely on an aircraft carrier?
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I know, I just needed an excuse to post a photo of a Gannet.
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