
Why are the wing fuel tanks sunken in?
Are they flexible like rubber?
I’d always imagined they were metal.
If you take a picture at an airshow doesn’t the small print limit it to `private use` only? If you are looking to make money from it wouldn’t you need permission or have to pay royalties?
The picture of the bi-planes and hurricane inside a period hanger on a wartime airfield. What is that, a 100 years of aviation history? It’s a privilege to be able to experience that today.
Wasn’t the door removed completely for Normandy?
The best portrayal of an American Soldier has to be at the end of Empire of the Sun.
The soldier (General?) that hands the boy that tin of milk.
I purchased when it came out. realised the only fun was as a shoot-em-up and abandoned it in favour of FSX.
There’s no immersion or feeling of `being there` so not for me.
Going Sunday.
The ( single starboard side) door on the wartime Storch opened forwards.
The post-war Morane Saulnier Criquet, the early examples of which were powered by French-built Argus V8 engines, had a Cub-type upward opening door that could be latched to the wing, both on the ground and in flight.
The original door, as seen on my aircraft, has a flare box fitted to it – a complex affair with lots of springs in it. The flare pistol tube can be seen on the port side of the fuselage.
Hope helps.
HP
Hi,
thanks for the reply.
So is your aircraft authentically German?
If so does that make it the only authentic German WW2 aircraft currently flying in Europe?
H.
The Storch at Old Warden cockpit door opens out and back.
Storch in The Eagle has landed opens upwards and latches onto the wing.
So can the door open both ways or was it changed?
I know this is kind of weird but googling the words `Aircraft in Rockery` throws up this
http://rnzaf.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=civil&action=print&thread=4183
When I’m up high in an observation tower (Toronto), looking over a car park wall or high escalator I get pains in my legs. I also have the feeling I might lob myself off. Not that I would it’s just the feeling I get up high.
It doesn’t bother me open cockpit in a bi-plane.
Weird or what?
When I’m up high in an observation tower (Toronto), looking over a car park wall or high escalator I get pains in my legs. I also have the feeling I might lob myself off. Not that I would it’s just the feeling I get up high.
It doesn’t bother me open cockpit in a bi-plane.
Weird or what?
So if he didn’t use his reserve, how did he find out it was full of sawdust?
I think that was the point. He did, during training and probably got the message not to keep doing it.
I forget the book I read this in. Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose ?
His main worked. He got the message. I guess when you are about to drop several thousand troops into Normandy with estimated 80% casualties it wasn’t much of a risk. The risk of him entangling the reserve with the main was greater. Besides they didn’t need their reserve as they dropped low (even though they carried it) at Normandy.
2nd, 17:15, Bi-plane over Tesco Winnersh. Anyone know what it was? Looked yellow or orange. Possibly a Stearman.