Helicopter pioneer dies.

I post news that Kaman the American helicopter designer, amongst many of his skills has died. Here is what Flight says in his obituary.
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2011/02/01/352636/helicopter-pioneer-kaman-dies-at-91.html

looking after the little ones

Getting it back into production should be relatively easy…

…there must be, what, nine or ten parts to a Bell 47? :diablo:

After 1.5 years doing airframe minor and major servicing on the little ones I think they are a bit more complicated than that;) we spent hours and £’s doing crack and corrosion inspections on the welded airframe, never a sign! The wirelocking on the control runs was a thought provoking job, checked by 2 SNCO’s! But, oh so easy to move when the firealarm was tested just attach a wheel to each skid and whip it outside, whilst the Whirlwind gang messed around (I had done 6 months on them that was enough reskinning for any fitter!) I did 2 years at Ternhill on my last posting, did it help me in my future civvy career, no! I became a fitter in the bakery industry:eek:

[QUOTE=AdlerTag;1683272]I can’t say for certain, but the P51 looks very much like those dressed up for the movie ‘Fighter Squadron’ in 1948. A shot of the Mustangs appears very very briefly on the trailer on the link below- brace yourself for some of the cheesiest war-movie promotion ever seen! 😀

I thought it was a great film when I saw in 1949, but I was only 8! Saw it again when I was a lot older on the ‘box’ not so impressed. But I did observe a certain Rock Hudson playing a bit part, he must have impressed the USAF because he later played a SAC wing commander in ‘A Gathering of eagles’ starring B-52’s.in 1963:diablo:

It is highly likely that Dornier sub contracted/split up sub assemblies production too and built some items in certain factories (i.e. port wing here, starboard wing there) and brought them to a final place for assembly.

If you had read my thread 21 it tells you everything about Dornier 17 production lines! The RLM (REICHLUFTFARHTMINISTERUMS) had complete control of ordering of and production of all aircraft. Thus any design dept. had to know after the prototype and early production they may end up as Dornier did with the Do17 making parts for other firms to assemble.

Not American copies!

Does anyone know which P & W engine was copied by the germans .. as the Dornier had the Bramo 323 Fanfir ??

Siemens owned the aero- engine firm that became Bramo in 1936, the maker of the Bramo 323 Fafnir which had been developed in house with no input from the Americans, just that all radials tend to look the same:D Siemens produced small capacity aero-engines in the twenties and started to assemble Bristol Jupiter engines (131), then using this experience to develop their own engines of 600-760 hp. SAM 322B was the final version built. 2000 for the early Luftwaffe. The SAM 23 the next development became the Bramo 323 Fafnir which powered many German aircraft (5500 built). In Oct. 1938 the first run of the Bramo 329 twin Fafnir achieved its design spec. of 2000 hp! At last Germany had a very powerful radial engine to power its combat aircraft.The factory by then was developing gas turbine engines! The RLM was not interested in its advanced projects and designs but BMW was and took it over in June 1939 stopped the twin Fafnir final development and developed the gas turbines as the mass produced BMW 003 JET ENGINE!

Two Werke Numbers?

On having a closer look at the excellent display I observed that the Werke plates were from two different factories! The Dornier Friedrichshafen one was Werke No. 49R. Do. 17P Assembled 1938. The other Werke plate was Siebel Halle Batch No.122003, Werke No. -96- Do.17P. Siebel produced 223 Do 17 aircraft(W.Nr 5001-) from 1937 (DO17F) and in 1940 went into Ju88 production.
Was this aircraft a combination of the two? Say after both had suffered such damage that only one could aircraft could fly with parts from the other!:confused:

Somewhere in England!

OK, you need a clue. Sorry how the picture is shewn but it will enlarge!:rolleyes:

Insect class gunboat correction!

There is an error in the spelling of the vessel shewn i.e Cicala should be Cicada an insect.:)