The Airbus A400 Tardy.

Putnams US Navy Aircraft since 1911 mentions the Allied Aviation Corporation XLRA-1 & the Bristol Aeronautical Corporation XLRQ-1. These seem to be the same Navy? design manufactured by both companies. They were wooden 12 seaters with a low sharply dihedralled monoplane wing, the wing roots providing lateral stability. Two of each were produced, but the production orders of 100 from each firm were cancelled. Even larger amphibious twin-hulled gliders were ordered in 1942 from AGA Aviation (XLRG-1) and Stead & Co. (XLRH-1) but were not built.
Before this thread started I had assumed that only the first 2 mentioned above were intended to operate from water. We live and learn!

When I was being taught (many years ago) to fly helicopters we had the Hiller 12B and 12C as our mounts. What appeared to be the ‘tail skid’ was known to us as ‘hockey sticks’. These were hollow metal tubes hinged lightly to the booms. The purpose was to damp vibrations, and I don’t think they would have given much protection in a tail strike.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/6287457.stm
Its like whiskey galore out there.
The stricken ship, msc napoli off branscomb has been shedding its cargo, and motor bikes and even barrels of wine have been washed ashore.
police are asking scavengers to give back thier loot.
WOULD YOU?????

Being Cornish, and with pirates and (possibly) wreckers among my ancestors, I should say NOT!

While doing some research for a friend he asked me if Wellingtons were used as glider tugs from 1944 onwards.I know in Market Garden the had to use any available aircraft but were they used before hand..Cheers…

The Pilots Notes for the Horsa I, dated January 1944 includes appendices for tug aircraft. Two marks of Wellington could be employed as tugs, the Mark III at up to 28,300 lbs and the Mark X which was cleared up to 30,550 lbs. Other types used for glider towing were the Whitley (no mark mentioned), Halifax II up to 47,000 lbs and the V up to 54,300 lbs, the Albemarle (no mark mentioned),Lancaster I & III 47,000 lbs and II at 48,100 lbs, (but these could be extended to 57,000 & 48,100 lbs), Dakota (C-47, C-47A & C-53), Stirling III & IV and the Hudson.
The Hamilcar PNs mention only the Halifax, Lancaster and Stirling as suitable tug aircraft.

Sorry, I can’t help you with the name of the book you read, but gyroscopes are fascinating devices. An old gentleman who lived locally had spent the war years as a boffin, working with Frank Whittle at one point. After the war he inherited a large fortune, so never had to work again. His passion was studying the gyroscope. He told me that there were still many lessons to be learned from it and he regretted that he did not have sufficient lifetime left to him to fully complete his work. And there was I thinking it was a simple toy with limited applications!

[QUOTE=PLA-MKII;1069074]Hello All, I have the good news that I was selected for a project to market Russian technology in the US!!!!!!

How likely is it that Russian companies could be successful in the US?

There is a difference between ‘marketing technology’ which is licencing some US firm to manufacture goods made under that technology and Russian companies trading in the USA. Patents need to be securely in place for the former and having the right product available at the right price should see to the latter.
My son works for a Russian boss in the UK who is a real ‘go-getter’.

[QUOTE=PhantomII;1067170]MiG-23 please don’t fill his head with all of your turn radius, G-limit crap. Why do you always do that everytime the Flogger is even mentioned on this forum?

Are you trying to prove something? Nobody even listens to you (not the least because the majority of your sentences lack any sort of punctuation or proper syntax) when you start rambling on about all that stuff.

I greatly appreciate MiG-23s contributions to the forum. He has the knowledge (backed by the manuals) that he freely shares with us. His knowledge and usage of the English language are extremely good and much better than many others who supposedly have English as their mother tongue. Possibly you could learn from him? I consider ourselves to be most fortunate to have him as a member.