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Armstrong-Whitworth A.W. 52
December 22, 2009 7:00 am
Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft proposed a jet-powered six or four-engine flying wing airliner design, utilizing a laminar flow wing, during the Second World War. This had to be a large aircraft in order to provide passenger head-room within the wing. The low-speed characteristics of the design were tested on a 53 ft 10 in (16.41 m) span wooden glider known as the A.W.52G; the glider was designed to be roughly half the size of the powered A.W.52, which in turn would be about half the size of the final airliner. The A.W52G first flew in March 1943 and flight testing, with tug releases from 20,000 ft (6,096 m) giving flights of around 30 min continued, mostly satisfactorily until 1945. In 1944, Armstrong Whitworth received a contract that would allow them to produce two A.W.52 prototypes for evaluation, nominally as mail carrying aircraft.
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Bloch MB 152
December 21, 2009 7:00 am
The Bloch MB.150 was a French low-wing, all-metal monoplane fighter aircraft with retractable landing gear and enclosed cockpit developed by Société des Avions Marcel Bloch as a contender in the 1934 French air ministry competition for a new fighter design.
Abused Jugs Part II
December 18, 2009 6:00 am
FMI: P-47 Thunderbolt
Skyraider Ditching
December 17, 2009 6:00 am
Abused Jugs, Part I
December 16, 2009 6:00 am
Lt Keene after belly landing his 9th AF P-47D Thunderbolt, 1945.
One more after the jump
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Defeathered Eagle
December 15, 2009 6:00 am
An Heinkel He 111 that has seen better days.
Photo: Jerry Pinkowski via Luftwaffe Resource Center
U.S.S. Lexington (CV-3)
December 14, 2009 6:00 am
To the victors go the spoils….
December 13, 2009 7:00 am
365th FG pilots examine their former foes……….
(L-R Top) Lt Manjak, Lt Price, Lt Morley
(L-R Bottom) Lt McWherter, Lt Briggs, Lt Van Cleef
By Tail Lt Hagan stands by the tail and shows how to shoot’em down.
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H2X “Mickey” Radar
December 12, 2009 6:00 am
H2X “Mickey” radar mounted in place of the ball turret on a pair of 96th Bomb Group B-17Gs. (Pictures of the control panel after the jump)
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Panama Patrol
December 11, 2009 6:00 am
Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress, s/n 41-2504, of the 6th AF over Panama 1943.
Note the nose mounted search radar and the early belly turret.
Jack Cook Collection
