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Major General
yes i did mean the lanc 
i know its a great bomber but, well, bleugh......
i know its a great bomber but, well, bleugh......
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the lancaster kicks ass
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good save with the great bomber bit
kiwimac
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Actually I think the He 177 was the best bomber of WW2
<Ducks and runs away laughing>
Kiwimac
<Ducks and runs away laughing>
Kiwimac
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the 177 wasn't that bad really..............
Hot Space
Tech Sergeant
It was as it killed more Germans then the Allies did 
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cheddar cheese
Major General
ah the 177 - isnt that the one that has 2 engines for each propellor?
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Hot Space said:It was as it killed more Germans then the Allies did
Hot Space
i meant it's looks, and yes C.C. it did, there wasn't any relaiable "big" engines in germany at the time, so they literally bolted two 12 cylinder engines together in each naculle
Hot Space
Tech Sergeant
Yep, that's it....................and what a joke that turn out to be
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GermansRGeniuses
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they shoulda used radials from fw190's would have been more sensible and probably cheaper
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ok this is random but check out the color and b&w pics since most ppl only check the most recent ones but check those sections because ive posted a lot and theyre all cool
All I know that F4U-4B was supposed to go for British Royal Navy and I did thought that F4U-4C was four 20mm to replace machine gun, but it should be changing before Korean War. The F4U-4N was only make one and they use them as a test I believe, but I have no clue for that F4U-4N history.Archer said:I got a question about the aircraft db (wow...actually on topic
For the F4U-4 it says there were 2000 and some F4U-4 and F4U-4Cs produced. What's a -4C? I've only ever heard of F4U-4s and F4U-4Bs with 20mm cannons.
Its -312, but from the cowl I thinks its a -5. It isn't really clear, but to me at least it looks like it has cheek air intakes as opposed to the -4 chin intakes.
Just checked a book (great idea to do every now and then ) and it lists F4U-4s, 297 F4U-4Bs (20mm cannons) built, one F4U-4N that was a testbed for the -5N/-5NL radar/avionics, and 11 F4U-4P photorecon Corsairs.
Just checked a book (great idea to do every now and then
) and it lists F4U-4s, 297 F4U-4Bs (20mm cannons) built, one F4U-4N that was a testbed for the -5N/-5NL radar/avionics, and 11 F4U-4P photorecon Corsairs.
GermansRGeniuses
Tech Sergeant
WHY DO YOU KNOW SUCH TINY DETAILS ABOUT THE PLANE LIKE THE COWLS?!?!??!?!!
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Because the cheek air intakes are a very noticeable difference between the -1s/-2, -4, and -5. Off the top of my head (I read it not too long ago) -1s/-2s had the intakes in the wing roots, -4s had one of the two intakes in the wing and had a cheek intake, while the ones remaining in the wing were enlarged, -5s had cheek intakes instead of the chin intake, I'm not certain about the AU-1 (XF4U-6) but I am pretty sure the intakes in the wing roots were recessed into the fuselage (air goes in the wing roots still, but the actually colling takes place in the fuselage), and I'm not sure about the -7s intakes.
IIRC it was a -5 airframe with a -4 engine (due to a surplus after WWII - making it cheaper for the US since the French procured the -7s under the US Military Assistance Program) I wasn't sure if they had cheek or chin intakes. The F4U-7s actually were obtained by the USN briefly before being shipped to France (from the way it was phrased, it sounded like they did this to keep the transfer within the MAP)
