The radial engine evolved by putting more cylinders on to smooth out the power stroke, and putting more banks or rows or cylinders to increase the power and capacity, eventually having to use liquid cooling rather than air cooling due to the difficulty in cooling the rear banks of cylinders.

Hence the early and inefficient 2 cylinder “V” radial evolved to being a 2 cyl, 6 row engine with liquid cooling, as the ultimate development of the radial engine:diablo:

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Mark Pilkington

Mark, you seem to be describing an inline engine, the main clue being that a ‘radial’ works best with an odd number of cylinders.
Ray

Am I mistaken, or was it also given the name “Rapier” by the USAF before they finally settled on “Raptor”? I’m almost certain I’ve seen that name in some early literature.

The only mention of the name ‘RAPIER’ for a US aircraft that I know was the NAA F-108 a twin engined all weather interceptor which was to be capable of Mach 3. Cancelled in 1958.

Are you sure it’s a tank? Very see-through tracks on it.
Wasn’t there a few experiments with tracked undercarriages on various aircraft. I know I’ve seen photos of things like Piper Cubs with tracked units for landing on rough ground. Can’t explain what looks like a gun on the front though. And that definitely looks like a drive sprocket.

The tank could be one of Christie’s designs. One of them owing to his advanced suspension design was to be released from a moving aircraft at 60 mph on touchdown!

Hi mhuxt, Have checked with ‘Coastal , Support and Special Squadrons of the RAF’ by John D R Rawlings and can confirm that you are right about the Sunderlands in 330 Squadron. In ‘Flying Cats’ they only mention the Catalinas in use by 330 Squadron. The Rawlings book does mention an attack by Sunderland mark 3 piloted by Lt. Johnsen of 330 Squadron on a surfaced U-boat! The front gunner was killed, the U-boat damaged and the Sunderland returned on 2 engines.

Just another twist in the saga of ‘Jossing’ versus U668. According to ‘Flying Cats’ by Andrew Hendrie published 1986 by Airlife the U668 was not sunk only damaged! The pilot of FP121 Sub-Lt Harald Hartmann met the captain of the U668 after the war when Wolfgang von Eickstedt was a priest in Hamburg and they became friends and thus the author had personal accounts from the two former antagonists a unique event in his study of such combats.
Chris was right about the 6 depth charges dropped but the U668 applied hard rudder and escaped damage from the depth charges. In the mass sinking after 8/5/1945 of Uboats, U688 finally met her end.
FP121 served with 202-210 Squadrons, then Norwegian Flight 1477 of Coastal Command finally 333 Squadron.
Chris you have done a mighty fine painting, sorry I cant help with the aircrafts codes and paint scheme
Ray

Concerning the armament of the F-84G, I was looking at Aviation Enthusiast Nineteen and noticed an article on F-84’s in Korea. They are equipped with TWO 500 LB BOMBS! I think due to the lack of thrust from the Allison J35-A-29 axial-flow turbojet rated at 5600 lbs. The mention previously of this problem with Republic’s early jet aircraft is proved again. They also used JATO although this did not always prove satifactory until longer runways were built. That is why they were one of the first aircraft to be fitted with flight refueling receivers and could chug over from Japan!

Have just read again the trouble the overladen Vulcans had on takeoff from Ascension Island on the Black Buck missions. This was just the time and place for the use of RATOG!

How about Mr Aghanur Harouthunian being an enemy spy who has been captured and is being taken back under armed guard (ie Private Edmund James Dilley, 19, 1st Btn, The Royal East Kent Reg) and under the watchful eye of the MI6 agent who caught him (Mr Thomas Simon Coates Gill)?

Just clearing up a bit of work that should have been done before May 1945!