Another ugly one – the french prototype PAYEN 22

A French prototype with German markings?, Whats the story.

John.

There’s no mad rush :p

Dig out your yellow pages and give your local gun club a ring, there is always someone who re-loads their own ammunition and .303 is a very common round so chances are that there would be some willing donations of old cartridges.

Regards,

John.

Did someone mention Avon’s?

John.

One can only magine that it is easier to ride a bike downhill than it is to ride it on a flat road, the same can be applied to flight.

One must also remember that at the time that Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier the aircraft in service where driven by very inneficient jet engines that could get the airframe up to the transonic region but not through the sound barrier, once at the transonic stage it was possible to put the aircraft into a shallow dive and add more airspeed using gravitiy therefore just managing to push through the sound barrier.

Mr Yeager was piloting a rocket powered airframe that presented much less drag and was able to acheive supersonic LEVEL flight, it was not long after that that people began to add things up, all moving tail plane, high degree of sweep back on the main wings, more powerfull engines and supersonic flight was then commonplace.

regards,

John.

Spanking good shots Kev35!!!

John.

if you ever get round to spotting at Valley, you’ll see this practised quite frequently.

I had the pleasure of doing just that a couple of years ago when on holiday at Treaddur bay, It must have been a damn good wake up call to some young cocky jet jocks!!!!!!.

John.