Hi Dave,

The Twin Engine Bell I believe is called the Aircuda I can’t remeber the exact des. for it.

The Lindberge photo look very familiar to me so I went back and check some thing with the Maine Aviation Historical Society. The photo was taken at Winter Harbor Maine. next to Ann’s parents summer place. This came from a seroius of photos taken by an AP guy in the summer of 36.

Hi Dave,

Photo 2. Its a photo of The Lindburges Lockheed Orion. They used this to travel around varoius parts of the world to set up airline routes.

Photo 1. This appears to be one of the Arado’s experimental jets design. Thou this looks like a model.

Photo 3. Its a Vultee A-35 Venngeance IA/MK1 one of the 400 ordered by the British. It looks like its being un-load at a UK dock.

Hi All,

Dave I called my Aunt and talk to her about my Graet-Uncle, it seems he saw alot of action during BoB he was stationed in France and Later ended up like many others on the Russian front.

The reason he defect back was because most of his Squadron ended up being captured by the Russians so he flew his Mistel to a USAF controlled base in France.

I ask her to see if they had any photos if they do she is going to send them to me to copy onto disk.

Flood, Their was a great article some time back on the Mistel progects and they used all sorts of bomber/fighter combos.

I’ve seen photos of 88/109, 88/190, 111/190 and a wrecked 110/88 mind you some of these were in the field mods. I know that Junkers build 250 88 versions.

The main reason he defect back was he did’nt like alot of the German Air Force be taken by the Russians.

Ah Airshow food,

Sometime back when we were flying are 25 around we build in the waist position a nice cooler that could hold a quarter barrel rather nicely. We rigged a tap to the outside of the rear hatch and hook up a aux-pump to do all the pumping.

The FAA really did’nt like this to much,I don’t know why they were always over after the flying was done for a cold one.

As for food I must say the Military show have a great many taste for all from Vegian to Burgers and Chicken.

Myself I like to pack a lite bag of nuts and plenty of water.

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Theirs a Comet at the Museum of Flight in Seattle. Also I think their is a Nimrod here in the States I’ll have to check into it.

Bingo , Thats it exactly.

I tryed this out tonight on a Flight Sim. at work,six times I ended up with a particle to complete wing stall. All times I ended up Dead.

Hi Guys,

I talked with a Corsair pilot friend of mine who flew closs air during WWII.

This is what he explain to me. They would over fly the target get ground troop location call in to GC officer. then they would back off the Man pressure, enter into a shallow dive(mined you they are comming from 2000AGL) at 1500 they would dump the gear allowing them to maintain a consent airspeed without induced wing fluttering. This was done with about 350 to 375 indicated Air.

At the bottom of the dive when they reach 600-550 AGL they would let go of the munnitions and start a hard pull up and turing away from the target, if they did’nt have the gear hanging the Corsair has a nasty habit of mid-wing stall.

One of the things they decided to try was to install wing stall strips to reduce wing flutter it was marginally sucessfull. It depend on munnitions and angle of attack.

I know this does’nt explain alot, but it helps some what. Also I asked him about Dive Brakes in Corsairs and he told me that they never had them he flew ever type including the AM-1 in Korea and F4U-7s. Their was some attempts in the field to make dive brakes in the lower fusl. area but because of the Corsairs speed they just ripped them apart.