Viking1066
Master Sergeant
Nakajima B5N and undentified personal 1942-1943 WIMI
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What are the tubes on the upper surface of the wings? My guess is braces for the manually folding wings> (for when they are folded) I am no expert on Seafires!Pedestal Fleet Air Arm 899NAS Seafire III aboard HMS Khedive-Grand Harbour Valletta Malta Jul 1944 ASBIZ
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Your guess is as good as mine. I can't of any other reason for them being there. I don't know British aircraft that well.What are the tubes on the upper surface of the wings? My guess is braces for the manually folding wings> (for when they are folded) I am no expert on Seafires!
What are the tubes on the upper surface of the wings? My guess is braces for the manually folding wings> (for when they are folded) I am no expert on Seafires!
Or......................... a funny place for a Stall Strip!!!What are the tubes on the upper surface of the wings? My guess is braces for the manually folding wings> (for when they are folded) I am no expert on Seafires!
Man, it just looks stuffy in there.IJN floating machine shop vessel Urakami-maru at Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, in 1942.
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Source: History of Showa-era (一億人の昭和史・日本の戦史 8・太平洋戦争 2)(Dec.1978)
It looks so but nothing changes.Man, it just looks stuffy in there.