Airplane Porn (and the occasional helicopter)

[Jesse C.]

[MikeRL411]

On 4/7/2023 at 6:40 PM, J-Luis said:

Bf 110's from long ago. 

 

 

That cockpit was the basis for the B&V 141 asymmetrical fighter.

[Cardinal Grammeter]

Anyone remember to which "slow" airplane this comment was made,

 

"...is so slow, its airspeed indicator is a calendar!"

[Chopper Jim]

A-10

 

Chopper Jim

[Jesse C.]

23 hours ago, MikeRL411 said:

 

That cockpit was the basis for the B&V 141 asymmetrical fighter.

 

Sorry, but I highly doubt that. For one, two very different companies that where competing against each other and the Bf 110 cockpit is mostly part of the fuselage, not a separate component, and it is much more narrow. 

 

 

 

 

[MikeRL411]

Designers do steal ideas from each other!! The cockpit layout was copied, not the body,

[MikeRL411]

By the way this is the second iteration of the design.  A very muscular gunner over rode the rear machine gun stops and shot the original horizontal tail plane off so it was moved to the left side.

 

[MikeRL411]

I have a model of this plane,

[Jesse C.]

5 hours ago, MikeRL411 said:

Designers do steal ideas from each other!! The cockpit layout was copied, not the body,

 

This both of the cockpit layouts. There is nothing new or unusual about an inline style cockpit. The SBD, Henshel, Dinah and so on used this layout. 

 

 

 

 

[MikeRL411]

2 minutes ago, Jesse C. said:

 

This both of the cockpit layouts. There is nothing new or unusual about an inline style cockpit. The SBD, Henshel, Dinah and so on used this layout. 

 

 

 

 

 

It was copied for its superior outward visibility.

[Jesse C.]

2 hours ago, MikeRL411 said:

 

It was copied for its superior outward visibility.

 

As opposed to this? The BV was supposed to be an recce aircraft, and thus the visibility factor. The Bf was a heavy fighter, visibility was critical, but not the extent of a recon aircraft. 

 

[a.d._510_n_ok]

 

[Jesse C.]

[J-Luis]

A few more pics from Willow Run. 

 

[Jesse C.]

[Jesse C.]

RIP Jim Sullivan - Photographer 

 

[J-Luis]

Elegant aircraft... 

Junkers Ju 86 was a German monoplane bomber and civilian airliner designed in the early 1930s, and employed by various air forces on both sides during World War II.

 

[J-Luis]

[J-Luis]

Ju 86 on the cover

[J-Luis]

Junkers G 38

[J-Luis]

[J-Luis]

Ki-20, Japanese heavy bomber version of the G.38

[KELMO]

An occasional helicopter.

[metalmonkey47]

Cool bit of history I learned about recently after visiting the Yorktown again a few weekends ago.

Apparently during WWII, they used to have catapults that could launch aircraft from the hanger deck. This wasn't commonly used though, since it was only intended to be used in the event that the flight deck is out-of-order.
 

 

[angliagt]

       Our oldest son was in charge of the catapults on the George H W Bush carrier.

We got to go an all day cruise on it.