What if someone wanted to buy an MG Midget sports car?…

Advertize for an Austin-Healey Sprite-That-Starts-With-An-M.

At last — the answer to this equation:

http://www.hiller.org/flying-platform.shtml

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http://www.piasecki.com/geeps_pa59k.php

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Seeing old episodes of the 12 O’Clock High TV series (1964-67) has rekindled my interest in 8th AF history.

Fans of that series in the United States should find this interesting:

http://www.metvnetwork.com/programs.php

His shows were widely shown — note the mention at 0:22:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfNno3EkGIM

WKBS-TV Channel 48, Philadelphia, 1965-1983, RIP.

I think it is the arms of the House of Savoy.

Yes and it was usually applied with a decal.

not one DC-2 was registered and operated in a civilian role in the UK prior to the war?, was this due to patriotism or an outright import ban on such American aircraft?

Airspeed had a license to build the DC-2, but never did. The DC-2 was designed with Bristol Pegasus engines as an option, presumably with the British market in mind, but the two that were built as such as the DC-2B were both for LOT of Poland. One was lost with all hands in a crash.

I doubt that there was such a ban; Chamberlain’s flight to and from Munich was in a Lockheed L-14 Super Electra of British Airways.

IIRC some manufacturer (Poss. Boeing) experimented with the MLG Wheels being rotated just before landing to prevent the flat spotting of the impact. We’ve all seen the smoke.

It obviously failed as it isn’t around. (Presume weight of driving mechanism contributed to failure?)

The story I heard was that the idea was abandoned because they had trouble getting the wheels to spin at the right speed.

BTW: I point out the Japanese use of Lockheeds when people talk about allied solders finding Earhart’s plane on a island late in the war. Yes, they were larger Lodestars and not AE’s Electra, but again, many ground troops have never been experts on aircraft recognition.

Good point. Plus, Japan had its own homegrown twin fin, twin engine plane, the Mitsubishi G3M “Nell” bomber and its L3Y “Tina” transport version. Moreover, both are known to have been operated in bare metal finish and that seems to have been the norm for the Tina:

http://www.daveswarbirds.com/Nippon/aircraft/Tina.htm

http://www.daveswarbirds.com/Nippon/aircraft/Nell.htm

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