It went to Cologne before Kabul. The day after in transit from Norway it picked up one more.
In the meantime at the General Discussion back at 29’th March: “Enoughs enough, Iran …”
In a rather pointless discussion I fired one picture of the Antonov off. Look at the second , please!
April 20, 2004 at 9:10 pm
in reply to: An-124#675786
Dave. I didn’t realise I had used the euphemism “lost”. I mean’t “killed or missing in action”. Missing being especially hard on the relatives. Where do you go to mourn? As I can see from the thread, this is a mature forum, that clearly has devoted much of their historical research to honour the brave (and very young!)aircrews of the second World War. Many of whome paid the highest price.
In fact there was a huge problem with “lost” (navigation-wise) aircraft. Twenty years ago I found a small book in the Danish Air Force library written by a Canadian? controller that helped set up a Rescue and Recovery Organisation in the UK in WWII: They could see wandering bombers returning – but lost. A system with searchlights through the fog/low clouds pointing to airfields were set up. (And Master diversion airfields?) Later Mosquitos as you mentioned? The FIDO system must also be mentioned. I wonder if I could find that book again?
Ju 287 was indeed a strange assembly: He 177 fuselage, Ju 388 tail, fixed Ju 352 mainwheels (with spats!) and a nosewheel from a captured B-24! Four Jumo 004 engines plus two Walter 501 rocket packs.
The forward swept wings was to overcome the bad habits of swept wings. But aeroelastic problems (anticipated) had to be dealt with. In effect the more G you pull the more the wing flexes upward and tend to tipstall (If i remember this correctly!) Not so important for a bomber though.
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