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  1. 44 minutes ago, Bruce Tuncks said:

    This is because there is a big separation of airflow just where the fuse contracts to make way for the pusher prop. The sound of the prop is different when travelling through the shaded zone and the unshaded zone...

    Interesting. A couple of years back I had a call from a fellow aviator, who’d heard a strange-sounding plane overhead. It had a similar design.

     

    A few weeks ago we farewelled a club member who’d been a regularly Saturday morning feature as he flew his Rans Airale (sp?) around the district. Noisy thing because the prop was cutting air made turbulent by both the wing and the exhaust pipe.

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  2. In his book Samarai, Saburō_Sakai describes the post-surrender attack on what he thought was a B-29. Making his approach, he was amazed at how big it was. He ignored the intense defensive fire and poured cannon shells into the cockpit area. He claims to have followed it down to it’s destruction. 

     

    Sakai and his comrades were incensed at the surrender and disobeyed orders to make this attack. Technically a war crime, it’s interesting that after the war he was well-received by his former adversaries duriung his vists the US.

  3. Australia’s first Chinook was assembled outside its dedicated hangar at Amberley in sunny weather. With rain approaching, efforts to move it inside were embarassing: it was too tall. Clever Aussie personnel quickly pumped up the front suspension and reduced pressure in the rear, until it fitted.

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  4. “…The P-36 was also used by Vichy French air forces in several minor conflicts; in one of these, the Franco-Thai War of 1940–41, P-36s were used by both sides.”

     

    In the Wikipedia account, the P-36 was widely used by Thai forces, but is not listed as being used by the French.

  5. After the war Goering said that as soon as he saw Allied fighters over Berlin “he knew the jig was up”.  He knew they’d lose, yet the asshole sent a few hundred thousand more of his young men off to die.

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  6. Back to the Sierra: years ago I dropped in to Garry’s Taree factory for some industrial espionage- I was looking for design ideas for my wing flaps.

    Garry is the sort of energetic, Can-Do bloke this country is running short of. He insisted I go for a fly. His son took me up in a Sierra and impressed me with its stability and speed. 

     

     

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  7. 11 hours ago, onetrack said:

    Old K - I bet the Nazis didn't make any jokes about a twin-Merlin-powered wooden night fighter/bomber, held together with stale milk, that could see off anything the Luftwaffe could produce!

    Apparently Goering ordered their aircraft industry to produce its own version of “the wooden wonder”. After lots of problems they gave up; one version is that the Allies had bombed the factory producing the special glue. My Jodel was put together with Resorcinol, which some sources say was developed for the Mossie.

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