Now this is some flying!

[MOP]

Keep your eyes on it !

http://users.skynet.be/fa926657/files/B29.wmv (http://users.skynet.be/fa926657/files/B29.wmv)

[Walt. H.]

Phil,
Once its off the ground and in the air it looks full scale, here's a real life B-17......

[CHACHI]

Walt, hit yourself in the head.

It was a B-29, not a 17.

Ken

[Walt. H.]

Walt, hit yourself in the head.

It was a B-29, not a 17.

Ken
Negative Ken I won't do that, cause I didn't say Phil's video showed a B-17 I know its a B-29, all I said was i'm posting a pic of a real life size B-17 after I said it looks real once its in the air.
Now put you're self in for twenty lashes with a wet noodle and two cocktail afterwards.

[CHACHI]

Walt, here is a Cessna 110. :wink:

The drinks will be fine and tasty, thanks.

Ken

[Walt. H.]

LMAO,
Looks like a German shepard - harlequin Dane Jet plane to me.......:wink:

[mattyboy]

the b 29 would be hard pressed to perform some of those manuevers.

the bell x 1 was pretty cool


"hey ridley let's see if we can't chase those demons"

now I am gonna have to watch the right stuff tonight


anyone notice they spun in, also amazing the guy could still wear shorts and had no scars on his legs :yes:

but i need no drinks to tell me this is not a b 29 p 39 whatever it takes

http://www.richard-seaman.com/Wallpaper/Aircraft/Fighters/AmericanProps/AiracobraBanking.jpg

[gcarter]

So if the engine is behind you and the propellor is in front of you, is it a tractor or a pusher???

[mattyboy]

So if the engine is behind you and the propellor is in front of you, is it a tractor or a pusher???

not sure but I bet your azz stays warm

[MOP]

Some do not know that many of the late prop fighters had the engine in the rear with shaft drive, this allowed for the armament to be place in the nose. The machine guns were timed to shoot between the blades, several had a 37mm cannon in the nose cone of the prop.

[mattyboy]

some do know the bell p 39 I posted had a nose cannon, the ones with the true nose guns were always favorites of the fighter pilots all they had to do was get there nose on them. were as the bigger radial engine fighter had wing guns toed in , like the p47 thunder bolt and corsair so they had a sweet spot.
all great aircraft loved by their pilots. the thunderbolt was extremely tough and could take a lot of fire. you'll find they were worked into the strengths.
ground support and attack, bomber escort, dog fighter.

in ground attack the p 47 was very good it could take fire while training its guns like a tommy gun firing short then bringing it right on target leaving the enemy column or supply train in pieces.

once the p 51 had it's cooling system re worked and it's repower it became the plane that could fly long and high bomber escorts, engage the enemy fighters at any altitude or attack ground targets with heavy bombs or heavy gunfire.

i believe the p 39 had some cooling issues too being a liquid cooled inline motor. on the early p 51 small gun fire could damage the vulnerable cooling system and bring the plane down until it was redesigned.

I built models of most of the aircraft from WWII with one of my uncles. That was also a learning expierence as he would quiz me on each model.My father and 4 of my uncles served in the Navy,Marines and the Army one was Army Air Corp. I miss those conversations and stories.

my favorite model we built was a late model p 47 thunderbolt newer bubble canopy the guns stiking out of the wings were the best.

[gcarter]

Almost all the P-39's went to the Russians to fight the Germans and therefore didn't have the high altitude Allison engines.
There never were enough of the high altitude engines. This was on purpose and all due to the Army planning of the period.
Allison got a bad rap for this.
Allison built a whole series of engines with two stage, two speed superchargers and would develop 1,800 HP up to 35,000'.
That's as good as it got at the time.
But the Army preferred to have Packard build 55,000 Rolls Royce engines instead.
The Allison engines were simpler to build and maintain and had much more of a "modular" approach to installation and maintenance.