Peter Gunn
Master Sergeant
Totally agree, perhaps the title can be something like:
"Did the Avro Groundhog have the Nutsack to pull off the Atomic Mission?"
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Totally agree, perhaps the title can be something like:Hey, there's something in this, we should start a thread on it...
Totally agree, perhaps the title can be something like:
"Did the Avro Groundhog have the Nutsack to pull off the Atomic Mission?"
Well, it rather depends on whether we're talking internal or external nutsacks. The latter are higher drag but the the poor groundhog may lack the internal capacity or fortitude for the former.
It's the main reason they went to triple-staged super-turbocharging, with Nitrous Oxide boost! To overcome heavier external nutsacks.
Everyone seems to forget... They also removed the IFF from the tail.Hmmm...I thought they just removed the nose armour and relocated the radio.
Totally agree, perhaps the title can be something like:
"Did the Avro Groundhog have the Nutsack to pull off the Atomic Mission?"
The advantage of external nutsacks is that they are air cooled.
Having grown up where it reaches minus 40 I would be more concerned about over cooling. At 20,00 feet it gets cold enough to freeze the proverbial brass monkey.Yes...overheating nutsacks caused no end of problems and discomfort.
Having grown up where it reaches minus 40 I would be more concerned about over cooling. At 20,00 feet it gets cold enough to freeze the proverbial brass monkey.
Did the VVS receive flying monkeys lend-lease?
Wait - didn't the Japanese have long range sea otters with groundhog hangars behind their conning towers? In the stormy north Pacific, the ride is much less nutsack-shrinking two hundred feet down. A fleet of these could have devastated the west coast. Good thing they didn't think of it!They WOULD have used Samurai Kamakaze groundhogs, but there was no way to transport them across the Pacific Ocean in such a way as to leave them combat ready when they got there. Groundhogs do NOT do well at sea, and their nutsacks shrink more than can be tolerated. All they wanted to do when they got to the U.S.A. was kiss the ground.
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