pampa14's Aviation Click Bait

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You cannot beat a bit of dazzle. Never seen it on a plane before.

 

Funny, it kinda looks like a bf 109 in that paint scheme.

 

Actually, tell a lie, did they use it on Sunderlands our similar?
Vague and untrustworthy recollection.

 

I've known about that aircraft for years.
maybe because WWII planes are my main area of historical interest.

personally , I think the thing is uglier that dirt !

 

The United States Navy briefly experimented with similar camouflage patterns in 1940, they were found to have little or no effect.
http://www.history.navy.mil/ac/artist/b/barclay/barclay%201.html

 

Some photos of B-24 Liberators in unusual cammos. The reason for the assembly ships was to give USAAF bombers a visual aid to form up after takeoff before heading out on their missions:


http://aviacaoemfloripa.blogspot.com.br/2011/01/camuflagens-exoticas-b-24-assembly-ships.html


Hope you enjoy!!!

 

I wonder why we don't see any B-17 assembly ships, at least I never have. Maybe because there were more war weary B-24s available?
Of course they did have sides like a billboard, so maybe that was it too.

 

There were a few groups that used B-17 assembly ships. Here's one...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49024304@N00/2963413660/

 

The F-82 was the last propeller-driven fighter acquired in quantity by the USAF. It appears to be two Mustang fuselages on one wing, but in reality it was a totally new design. Its purpose was to provide a fighter carrying a pilot and co-pilot/navigator to reduce fatigue on long-range bomber escort missions. A lot of photos this aircraft can be found in the link:

http://aviacaoemfloripa.blogspot.com.br/2011/03/north-american-p-82f-82-twin-mustang.html

 

Thanks for the link, but this really wasn't a totally new design. Germany did similar conversions with their He-111.

 

And they went back to Allisons

 

Only because Packard ended production of the Merlin, because they didn't want to keep paying the license fee to Rolls Royce.

http://www.airvectors.net/avp51_3.html#m2

The Allisons were definitely inferior to the Merlin

 

The first 25 or so had the Packards but were converted to trainers for the rest of the production a/c. They were faster than the Allison fighters. Still the Allison P/F-82s were faster than the P/F-51s. As they say, there's no replacement for displacement.
Bill

 

...and a lot of photos of others WW2 captured aircrafts, can be viewed in the link:

http://aviacaoemfloripa.blogspot.com.br/2011/01/aeronaves-capturadas.html


I hope you enjoy!!!

 

Would have liked to see some of them or some P-47s in West German markings but they went straight to the F-84

 

I share with you some photos of the Kyushu J7W1 Shinden (Magnificent Lightning), the only aircraft of canard configuration to be ordered in quantity production anywhere in the world during WWII. The first flight occurred on August 3, 1945, and with the war ending soon after the project reached its preempted conclusion. The photos can be found in the link:

http://aviacaoemfloripa.blogspot.com.br/2011/01/kyushu-j7w1-shinden.html


Hope you enjoy and thanks for visiting!

 

I find looking at might have been aircraft of WWII fascinating. The Shinden looks like a nimble craft, but how much punishment could she take on that airframe and did she have enough power and range to be effective?

 

If nothing else, it had the power. Hard to believe it had a 2000 HP radial. hidden under that streamlining. A Mitsubishi Ha-43.
Kind of like a Curtis XP-55 on steroids

 

Makes you wonder how the XP-55 would have performed had the Pratt & Whitney X-1800 been a success.

Of course, these canard fighters lacked the range necessary to be a good all-round performer, and likely would have been relegated to point defense of cities/industries.