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January 20, 2002 at 9:06 pm in reply to: One of these days ! #2117608

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RE: One of these days !

Guys,
take a look at the rear end of this Spitfire F Mk 24.
Doesn´t it look as if the rudder came from a Seafire F/FR Mk 47?

January 19, 2002 at 8:23 pm in reply to: Technical Teaser #2117686

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RE: Technical Teaser

Hello uncle Keith!
Thanks for an interesting topic.

I´ll try to explain this as simple as I can, with emphasis on try.
The bit about simple, well, if it gets any more complicated I´ll bail out.
Anyway, this is how I believe it works:

Radials could be said to fire and skip and fire ……
to make the firing order 1-3-5-7-9-2-4-6-8 in two revolutions.
With 9 cylinders you have 40º between them. Skipping every second cylinder when firing gives 80º of crankshaft rotation but, the camlobes rotate at 1/8 enginespeed in the opposite direction which gives an additional 10º to make it 90º.

If #1 is at TDC, between compression and combustion strokes then …
#2 is on exhaust
#3 is on compression
#4 is on exhaust
#5 is on compression
#6 is on combustion
#7 is on intake
#8 is on combustion
#9 is on intake

Now it´s up to You to tell me exactly what size of a fool I am!

Regards,
Christer

January 17, 2002 at 9:03 pm in reply to: Tempest/sea fury #2117812

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RE: Tempest/sea fury

I´ve heard (read) rumours of the possibility of airframes still existing in Pakistan but, not that any was recovered from there.
Can You confirm this or do You mean India?

December 20, 2001 at 5:39 pm in reply to: Best American Fighter? #2119297

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RE: Best American Fighter?

Thanks Rob,
the bit about the template was read in an early issue of Warbirds Worldwide. I think that the article was about Blain Fowlers F4U-5, Alberta Blue. (Maybe I´m wrong since it´s from memory!?)

Christer

December 20, 2001 at 11:25 am in reply to: Picture of the day 19/12/01 #2119311

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RE: Picture of the day 19/12/01

Well, size could be kept down to 800 x 600 or 1024 x 768 which would mean that us poor buggers with 17″ monitors won´t have to scroll ……

December 17, 2001 at 11:51 pm in reply to: phred's comment #2119548

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RE: phred’s comment

Fred,
everyone is entitled to his or her opinion of which is their favourite.
My favourite fighter of WWII isn´t even a fighter, it´s a photo recce, the Spit nineteen, and it should be adorned with the swedish crown markings. (Hey, don´t even start, I know it´s not american 🙂 )
My opinion is not based on performance only but, since I personally think it´s the best looking of them all, it´s my choise.

Happy holidays to You too!

Christer

December 17, 2001 at 11:30 pm in reply to: Best American Fighter? #2119559

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RE: Best American Fighter?

Rob,
interesting info on the “deflating” oleos.
I read somewhere that preflight inspection included checking the oleo extension by means of a template. I think it was a dash five.
I assume that the oleos expand again on take off when relieved of the weight.
Can You confirm this and also that the use of a template was to secure enough oleo travel for a normal take off.

Regards,
Christer

December 17, 2001 at 11:53 am in reply to: phred's comment #2119631

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RE: phred’s comment

Hi Fred and all!

I just have to make a comment on D-day activities:

The germans flew 172 combat sorties on D-day, whereas the allies flew approximately 14.000.
With those numbers in your favour anyone would have ruled the skies flying anything?!

You have to consider the tactical situation and that is why you can not claim that the allied hardware was rather mediocre since on 14.000 combat sorties they only managed to score a handfull of victories!?

Regards,
Christer 🙂 trying to be logical

December 13, 2001 at 7:06 pm in reply to: Picture caption competition #2119847

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RE: Picture caption competition

Hey guys, don´t blame me, YOU told me to bring a blow-drier!

December 13, 2001 at 6:15 pm in reply to: Picture of the day 13/12/01 #2119853

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RE: Picture of the day 13/12/01

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 13-12-01 AT 06:39 PM (GMT)]Phil,
now You make an old swedish hearth bleed. Even if it´s on the danish register, owned(?) and operated by the norwegian Scandinavian Historic Flight (Anders Saether), it´s still a swedish design.
By some it´s been called “the worlds most expensive fuel to noise converter” and that old Avon (licence built by Volvo) really gulped the brew. With internal fuel there was something like 50 minutes of business so, after 5 minutes you were down on your reserves.
If my memomory serves me correctly, at some time, there was legal dispute regarding ownership during which the aircraft was impounded.
This has, to my knowledge, since been settled and it´s operated by SHF. (I could be wrong though.)

Regards,
Christer

Here´s the link to SHF:

http://www.shf.as/shf_docs/index.htm

When you find the Draken and it quotes a longer endurance, it´s for the danish version with more internal fuel and drop tanks!

December 7, 2001 at 12:12 pm in reply to: Best American Fighter? #2120249

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RE: Best American Fighter?

Neilly,
when I decided to use my first name as user name I didn´t think it was that common. Obviously I was wrong since there are, at least, two other gents by the same name. Both of them are proficient authors and contributors to web sites.
I, however, am not one of them, I´m just another besserwisser!

My best to You as well,
Christer

December 6, 2001 at 11:45 am in reply to: Best American Fighter? #2120297

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RE: Best American Fighter?

Scot and Mick,
I can assure You that I took no offence at all since I didn´t name any fighter in my postings. I was of the opinion that you hit Neilly a little too hard and I simply expressed that view.
Scot,
the excuse “I don’t always have the time to reply” really was lame since You found time to comment on other postings!
Be that as it may, no hard feelings, no time for that!

🙂 Christer 🙂

December 6, 2001 at 11:23 am in reply to: Best American Fighter? #2120301

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RE: Best American Fighter?

Neilly,
some posting I´ve read expressed the joy of having a female member on the forum and I remembered it as beeing You, sorry about that, just be grateful that I didn´t spam You with marriage proposals! 🙂
Regrettably Your profile is hidden so no indication to be gathered from that source. 🙁
It´s my experience that a topic often doesn´t end where it started, it´s easy to divert from the original subject. On the occasions when I do get technical I worry that I´m overdoing it and am boring people in the process. You seem to like it however, and hopefully You´re not the only one, so I´ll have my fits in the future as well!?
About the night fighters, of course there were two seaters but, I was focussed on the single seat types being discussed. I do, however, strongly believe that in terms of handling qualities a Lanc never out manoeuvered any fighter. Maybe in darkness they could pull off a stunt or two but not in general terms.

Regards,
Christer

December 5, 2001 at 6:00 pm in reply to: Best American Fighter? #2120369

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RE: Best American Fighter?

Guys,
didn´t Neilly mention the Mossie simply because it was included in a test that was referred to? Then she got carried away with the anecdote about Hap Arnold!
The question was about specified AMERICAN fighters and neither the Mossie nor the Spit falls into that cathegory, and to my knowledge none of them has ever been voted for as the best AMERICAN fighter.
My reply was of a technical/scientifical nature held in general terms and since there was no comment by Scooter I take it that it was of no interest whatsoever to him!?
I doubt that I´ll bother the next time?!

December 5, 2001 at 1:07 pm in reply to: Best American Fighter? #2120396

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RE: Best American Fighter?

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 05-12-01 AT 01:18 PM (GMT)]Neilly,
thanks for responding to a technical/scientifical nutter!
Actually, I thought about discussing wingloading as well as other aspects such as “combat flap settings”, closely related to “opening the radiator flaps”, but decided that my post would be long enough without indulging too deeply.
About the Lancaster out turning night fighters, well, the fighter pilot had his face stuck in a boot staring into a radar screen. I believe that it didn´t require much manoeuvering on the part of the Lanc to get “out of sight”. During daytime, with visual contact, it never happened!?

In my opinion you can´t judge the qualities of a fighter by the number of kills. This number depends on many more factors, such as the tactical situation and, above all, the skills of the jockey.
I mean, even if the allies and the germans swapped hardware, Victory Europe would have gone the way it did anyway.
One specific type has been very highly appraised and I regard that as some kind of a wartime propaganda lie to satisfy home opinion of the war effort. If you take the time to read various reports you´ll find that it didn´t excel in any aspect apart from range and endurance.
(I´ll probably get tared and fethered for this but, what the heck, it´s my opinion!)

I also think that the largest proportion of the credit for victory should go to the jockeys, they were the deciding factor!

Regards,
Christer
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