RE: AMERICAN AIRLINES CRASH!!!

LAST EDITED ON 14-11-01 AT 03:52 PM (GMT)[p]In the engine pylon of the aircraft there are a small number of couplings to attach the engine to the pylon. My University lecturer said that if one of these breaks, the engine would be able to rock backwards and forwards eventually causing it to snap off. This would also explain the rattling noise.

RE: Best single engined fighter-bomber of WW2?

I didn’t know that gun was invented by a cigarette vending machine maker either!!!! Interesting stuff!!!

RE: Best single engined fighter-bomber of WW2?

LAST EDITED ON 10-11-01 AT 07:21 PM (GMT)[p]Hmm… using my argument against me!! I haven’t read the books recommended by yourself yet, but I have read about the Mosquito in some other books which I possess.

I have the opinion that the Mosquito “B” variants were bombers without guns. But I read that the Mosquito was designed from the outset with provision for 20mm cannons which were fitted when the Mosquito started to be a night fighter and Fighter bomber. Perhaps I’m becoming a convert!! It seems the potential for a Mosquito FB aircraft was there, just not taken up by the RAF as soon as it could have been. So the Mosquito was a unarmed bomber before it was an FB aircraft. That’s where my original thinking came from!

However, I still want to put a Mosquito GR.VI designation onto the FB.VI. The reason, I don’t feel that the Mosquito FB aircraft intentionally set out to destroy enemy aircraft in the air, which is what a fighter aircraft does (or attempts to do).

RE: Concorde’s back!

Words can’t describe it!!

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RE: WHAT HAS HAPPENED

Scooter… DATE CHECK!!!!! He’s already briefed us on it… and by the sounds of it Saab 2000 wasn’t best pleased!!!! See the CDG – A BIG DISAPPOINTMENT thread.

RE: P-51D Mustang vs F4U-4 Corsair

I’m open to fresh opinions!!! I think I’m stuck in the haze, as it were. Trying to put a designation onto an aircraft capable of performing so many roles. But hey, this is a discussion forum after all!!!

RE: P-51D Mustang vs F4U-4 Corsair

The Mosquito FB. VI should be classed as a strike aircraft. It is in my opinion a bomber with a degree of self escort. If I had to designate it, the FB. VI would become A. VI. But then that would get confused with the Radar designation!