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Mystery Aircraft
Anybody care to identify the aircraft above?
16 May 2009, 01:41
N E 450 No2Looks like a bi wing Hawker Hurricane.
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16 May 2009, 02:26
MacifejIt's an illusion from the camera angle. That's actually a giant air cooled ale container for long range flights. English pilots worst fear during WWII was not being shot down and killed but rather being shot down in France or Germany and surviving where the Germans have no ale and the French have no beer of any kind.
Well I'll be damned it is not a photoshop!
HAWKER-HILLSON FH.40 HURRICANE
That and a whole lot more goofball ideas:
http://rareaircraf1.greyfalcon.us/GREAT%20BRITAIN.htmWell, you learn something new every day!
for every hour in front of the computer you should have 3 hours outside
Macifej, you were closer than you thought!
As Mark says its a HAWKER-HILLSON FH.40 HURRICANE otherwise known as the Hurricane Slipwing. The structure is actually a large external fuel tank in the shape of a wing which apparently could be jetisoned in flight!
17 May 2009, 10:07
Macifejquote:
Originally posted by Pete E:
Macifej, you were closer than you thought!
As Mark says its a HAWKER-HILLSON FH.40 HURRICANE otherwise known as the Hurricane Slipwing. The structure is actually a large external fuel tank in the shape of a wing which apparently could be jetisoned in flight!
English Ale is made from Av-Gas isn't it ...??
17 May 2009, 20:34
Grizzly AdamsMust have beem quite a memorable experience, jetisoning that thing.
Grizz
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20 May 2009, 04:26
Tumbleweedquote:
Originally posted by Grizzly Adams:
Must have beem quite a memorable experience, jetisoning that thing.
Grizz
I'd have hated like hell to be the first guy to try it. "O.K., now I just pull this handle and that top doodad, and probably the vertical stabiliser and rudder...."
Maybe you were just supposed to wait until there was a German on your tail, and you'd clobber him with a whole damn wing full of gas.
20 May 2009, 05:40
N E 450 No2Actually it looks like a brilliant idea.
Assuming that when "ejected" it does not take out the tail.
The extra weight of the gasoline is probably offset by the lift of the "wing" tank.
There must be some reason why it was not widely accepted.
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quote:
There must be some reason why it was not widely accepted.
Expensive and probably altered the flight characteristics a lot so the pilots probably got little practice or real training.
Suppose it is full and you have a problem and need to land.
Given the basic nature of the plane, perhaps the pilots endurance was the major limiting factor???
21 May 2009, 04:01
Grizzly AdamsThere must be some reason why it was not widely accepted.[/QUOTE]
Logic and common sense prevailed, for once.
Grizz
Indeed, no human being has yet lived under conditions which, considering the prevailing climates of the past, can be regarded as normal. John E Pfeiffer, The Emergence of Man
Those who can't skin, can hold a leg. Abraham Lincoln
Only one war at a time. Abe Again.
