MiTasol
Major
Herman Nelson time
Love those icicles that curve down the side
Love those icicles that curve down the side
Picture of the day. (66 Viewers)
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MIflyer
Major
A friend told me something interesting about the B-18. It was designed and equipped so that in the event of an intact ditching the crew could rush around and insert corks and plugs to prevent water from entering the fuselage and thereby facilitate recovery of the aircraft.
MIflyer
Major
Not too bad. We'll have it back on the line in the morning.
MIflyer
Major
XB-38 Cockpit
MIflyer
Major
By the way, although that shot is labeled XB-38, the V-1710 powered version of the B-17, in reality it has to be the XB-39, the V-3420 powered version of the B-29.
MIflyer
Major
This is the USS Enterprise and could be titled, "Gentlemen, DON'T start your engines!" What a packed deck!
MiTasol
Major
Right hand drive. Most unusual
I think that's the co-pilots seat. Not many gauges, since they had a flight engineer with his own engine monitoring gauges.
MiTasol
Major
You are probably right but that means the pilot sat further aft with some of his vision obstructed by the copilot.
MIflyer
Major
Yes, it has to be the co-pilot's seat. And note the obsession with the turbo controls. The P-38 used a spring attached to the throttle linkage to control the turbos. The B-29 used electronic turbo controls. And the B-29 had two turbos per engine. With the V-3420's installed rather than the R-3350 they would have to do the same thing. Obviously, some development had to be done and that bore close watching by someone who had close access to the throttles.
Note the box is fake one made by someone who sells them on ebay. Or maybe it is evidence of a parallel universe.
Note the box is fake one made by someone who sells them on ebay. Or maybe it is evidence of a parallel universe.
Vic Balshaw
Major General
Maybe that's why we haven't seen more - this was the one trial and after that no-one else was crazy enough...Don't think I would be wanting to stand that close when the rockets went off.
Escuadrilla Azul
Master Sergeant
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Maybe uncle Joe never knew about that so no one asked for some divisions!Maybe that's why we haven't seen more - this was the one trial and after that no-one else was crazy enough...
I think that otherwise he would had found it very useful for the inhabitants of the Gulag Archipiélago.
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Should be re-posted under "Three words only".
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syscom3
Pacific Historian
At a Royal Air Force air station west of London, pilots rush out to their machines during a practice for the great exercises which began on August 8, 1939.
