I share with you a full report and photos of one of the most curious and faster design of aircraft produced in Germany before the war and ended up not entering service. Visiting the link below you will find an extensive report, many photos and a poll. Click the link below, make a visit and give your opinion about the impact and supremacy that this plane would have given the Luftwaffe, had been produced and entered into active service.
http://aviacaoemfloripa.blogspot.com.br/2011/03/heinkel-he-119.html
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By: Beermat - 7th March 2016 at 22:04
Hook line and sinker!
By: skyskooter - 7th March 2016 at 20:55
I knew someone would take the bait.
By: Beermat - 6th March 2016 at 21:48
No, it wasn’t. Beverley Shenstone was largely responsible for the wings. There might have been many reasons the wings became that shape, but Shenstone’s own experience was one of them. He spent 1934 absorbing the absolute leading edge of aerodynamic thinking from a group of German emigres under Theodore Von Karman working at what became Caltech in California. He was fluent in German, which might have helped. One of these, Muttray I think it was, drew a Spitfire planform, including root fairings, as a theoretical optimum shape in a paper translated into English in 1935. The original drawing may be as old as 1928.
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By: skyskooter - 6th March 2016 at 19:34
So that’s where Mitchell got the idea for elliptical wings. Gosh !
By: Sabrejet - 6th March 2016 at 16:33
… But it wasn’t and didn’t.
Thank you.
Next! …
Don’t encourage him!
Enough I’d say.
By: Ian Hunt - 6th March 2016 at 15:19
… But it wasn’t and didn’t.
Thank you.
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March 6, 2016 at 10:38 am