RE: Own Websites

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 15-02-03 AT 08:18 PM (GMT)]Harrier piccies

Took the second one late seventies at Middle Wallop and the other two at Boscombe Down during an air display.

cheers

Gary
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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 13-02-03 AT 03:23 PM (GMT)]The pic that started this thread off is in fact the V-173 full scale low powered lightweight flying model of the VS-315 (XF5U-1) fighter being flown over Long Island Sound by Boone T Guyton (Vought cheif test pilot)

Te V173 was powered by two 80Hp Continental A-80 four cylinder engines driving 16ft 6in propellors. For simplicity the undercart was fixed !.

First flown on 23 Nov 1942 for 13 minutes with high stick forces. later they found that with full power and full aft stick and a flight attitude aproaching 45 degrees it was possible to maintain full lateral and longitudinal control and was impossible to stall or spin. Went on to fly a total of 131 hours.

The first XF5U-! was rolled out on 25Jun 1945 ready for flight testing. Using temporary Hydromatic airscrewas nicked from a couple of F4U-4 Corsairs was ready to start engine ground runs on Aug 20 1945

The XF4U was being readied for shipment by sea through the Panama Canal to Muroc Dry Lake California when the project was cancelled (Queue nasty noisy horrible turbojet era !!!). The fighter was reduced to scrap in the sprng of 1948.

Reckon it would have been an awesome bit of kit if it had gone into production…bit like the TSR2, but thats another story !.

and yes…that is a row or ‘flight’ (?) of stairs leading up its back so the pilot could get into the sharp end easily !!

Hope this helps.

Cheers

Gary

PS: apologies for the piccies…my scanners not that good…actually its Cr*p but its all I got at the mo’ !

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Nice one.

Must try my own one day when I get the knowhow to make one.

Love the Sharkmouth pic. Apache would scare the sh*t out of anyone without that grin added to the front.

Keep it up

cheers

Gary

RE: Bush Cartoons!

and this one
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XF5U-I. Flying Flapjack…Revealed June 1946 by Chance Vought division of United Aircraft corporation/.. A new shipboard fighter. Proposed speed range 40 – 460(it could take off vertically in a 25 knot wind !)Powered by two Pratt and Whitney R-2000-2D Twin Wasp yurbo-supercharged 14 cylinder twin row radials.

scrapped in 1948, the original flying model was given to the Air Museum of the Smithsonian Institute.

Cheers

Gary

RE: Belfast Pictures at Prestwick

Thanx for that J.

Question for you guys….I see the flaps are drooped ! Would a ‘plane be stored like that or are they hydraulic (As per P51 Mustang) and rise once pressure is in the system ?

Over to you

Cheers

Gary

RE: Another Caption Competition!

Propliner Pilot “What the plural of Galaxy…galaxus….galuxi ?”

Propliner Co-pilot ” Dunno, but if’n you dont pull back on the stick soon…you’ll be seeing more than stars !”

“These 2D advertising hoardings are getting a bit out of hand !”

Pilot of propliner…”Stop yelling Stearman….its a Galaxy !”

Thats it for this lot…oh and apologies for calling it a propliner…I’m out of my depth (couldnt recognise an A340 if it ran over my left foot !)

Cheers

Gary