MiTasol
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They have not split the hub so do not need to balance it. Even in to the 60s on 23E50 props all the primary balancing was done with lead inside the blade butts and secondary with lead inside the hub bolts.
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They have not split the hub so do not need to balance it. Even in to the 60s on 23E50 props all the primary balancing was done with lead inside the blade butts and secondary with lead inside the hub bolts.
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Douglas SBD-2/-3 Dauntless dive bombers and a single Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat fighter on the flight deck of USS Enterprise (CV-6). USS Hornet (CV-8, background) REDD
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Douglas B-18B Bolo with power nose turret WIKI
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French pilots with their Bloch 210 bombers in 1936 REDD
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J7745 was the prototype Handley Page Hinaidi and had been converted from a Hyderabad. It arrived in Lahore in what was then British India in February 1928 for tropical trial AIRH
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Is the crewman with the blind man's glasses the pilot or the navigator?
buffnut453
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Neither. He's just preventing his eyes from being burned out by the ugliness of the aircraft.
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Lancaster ASR.3 RF319 'RL-A' of 279 Squadron dropping a lifeboat December 1945 NEAM
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I thought this would be of interest to the rest of you.
𝑪𝑶𝑾𝑨𝑵'𝑺 𝑪𝑶𝑼𝑹𝑨𝑮𝑬"
On 22 July 1942, Pilot Officer Warren Frank Cowan and his three-man crew of No. 32 Squadron RAAF took off from Port Moresby in Lockheed Hudson A16-201 on a lone reconnaissance mission over the Buna-Gona area. Over the target the Hudson was intercepted by a formation of six Japanese A6M Zeros of the Tainan Kōkūtai. Rather than try to flee, Cowan repeatedly turned his lumbering bomber into a close, turning dogfight, an audacious and desperate tactic that surprised and initially scattered his attackers. After a prolonged fight the Hudson was eventually set aflame and crashed in jungle near Popondetta. All four airmen were killed.
The action was so indelibly etched into his mind that famed Japanese ace Saburō Sakai, who had fought in the engagement, sought to honour his adversaries. In 1997 Sakai contacted Australian officials (and researchers), supplying a signed statement urging that Cowan be "posthumously awarded your country's highest military decoration." That appeal initially foundered on procedural limits around wartime award recommendations, but it helped sustain attention on the crew's bravery.
Decades of research and advocacy culminated in modern recognition. In announcements made by Australian authorities in 2023-2024, the four members of A16-201 were formally acknowledged for extraordinary gallantry and each was posthumously awarded the Medal for Gallantry (MG). Cowan's fierce refusal to surrender the initiative, and Sakai's later testimony to their courage, ensured the crew's actions would not be forgotten.
𝑪𝑶𝑾𝑨𝑵'𝑺 𝑪𝑶𝑼𝑹𝑨𝑮𝑬"
On 22 July 1942, Pilot Officer Warren Frank Cowan and his three-man crew of No. 32 Squadron RAAF took off from Port Moresby in Lockheed Hudson A16-201 on a lone reconnaissance mission over the Buna-Gona area. Over the target the Hudson was intercepted by a formation of six Japanese A6M Zeros of the Tainan Kōkūtai. Rather than try to flee, Cowan repeatedly turned his lumbering bomber into a close, turning dogfight, an audacious and desperate tactic that surprised and initially scattered his attackers. After a prolonged fight the Hudson was eventually set aflame and crashed in jungle near Popondetta. All four airmen were killed.
The action was so indelibly etched into his mind that famed Japanese ace Saburō Sakai, who had fought in the engagement, sought to honour his adversaries. In 1997 Sakai contacted Australian officials (and researchers), supplying a signed statement urging that Cowan be "posthumously awarded your country's highest military decoration." That appeal initially foundered on procedural limits around wartime award recommendations, but it helped sustain attention on the crew's bravery.
Decades of research and advocacy culminated in modern recognition. In announcements made by Australian authorities in 2023-2024, the four members of A16-201 were formally acknowledged for extraordinary gallantry and each was posthumously awarded the Medal for Gallantry (MG). Cowan's fierce refusal to surrender the initiative, and Sakai's later testimony to their courage, ensured the crew's actions would not be forgotten.
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Brewsters of 2-VI.G-V early 1942 SAMA
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Northrop P-61 Black Widow "Wacky Wabbit" REDD
