Author Topic: Post interesting aircraft trivia (Read 808 times)

Charge · « **Reply #15 on:** March 10, 2005, 07:26:01 AM »

(7) The first jet engine was built in 1911.

http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?method=4&dsname=Wikipedia+Images&dekey=Coanda+1910.gif&gwp=8

Coanda's engine was a combination of turbine and piston engine called a "thermojet" used also in Japanese "Ohka" kamikaze bomb.

-C+

simshell · « **Reply #16 on:** March 10, 2005, 06:38:52 PM »

what was the flamethrower for:rofl

Angus · « **Reply #17 on:** March 10, 2005, 06:53:57 PM »

"On discovery there was something about a hurrican pilot who rammed a do-17 near buckinham palace.

They told he got some oil on his windscreen of a non workin flame thrower "

I met one of the pilots who were intercepting the flight that actually hit the Palace.
He got shot, but in his word, "Ginger" nailed the bomber.
Have to look that one up.

GScholz · « **Reply #18 on:** March 10, 2005, 07:36:27 PM »

"The first true Gas Turbine was created by Dr. F. Stolze towards the end of the Twentieth Century. Although his model failed to operate solely under it’s own power. It wasn’t until just after the turn of the century in 1903 that Aegidius Elling of Norway built the first successful gas turbine to run under its own power, using both rotary compressors and turbines - the first gas turbine with excess power. In 1931 the work of Frank Whittle, designer of the first Jet Engine, paved the way for jet flight. However the first Gas Turbine powered flight did not belong to Whittle as the German pair Hans von Ohain and Max Hahn created their own Jet Engine which powered the Ernst Heinkel HE178, the first Jet.

Since that time, there was a marked increase in technological advance and gas turbines soon became the highly sophisticated machines that we have today."

http://www.bath.ac.uk/~en3lsr/gas%20turbines%20web%20page.htm

Rafe35 · « **Reply #19 on:** March 10, 2005, 09:18:30 PM »

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Originally posted by simshell
what was the flamethrower for:rofl

Set the enemy aircraft on fire when closing in

GREAT BALLS OF FIRE!!!!!! YEEEHAW!!!!

Rafe35 · « **Reply #20 on:** March 10, 2005, 09:18:38 PM »

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Originally posted by simshell
what was the flamethrower for:rofl

Set the enemy aircraft on fire when closing in

GREAT BALLS OF FIRE!!!!!! YEEEHAW!!!!

Glasses · « **Reply #21 on:** March 10, 2005, 09:32:06 PM »

I'd think if it was a headwind flame thrower it would give the pilots a nice tan.

Guppy35 · « **Reply #22 on:** March 10, 2005, 11:17:25 PM »

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Originally posted by SunTracker
A squadron based in San fransisco flew P38s that had 37mm cannons. I believe I read it in Coont's book.

Which book? I think I've got most of em if not all of em.

Haven't found a photo of an operational P38 with a 37mm yet.

Glad to be proven wrong on it though

Dan

Halo · « **Reply #23 on:** March 11, 2005, 10:15:39 AM »

Good trivia -- keep it coming.

Aerial flamethrowers? Don't make much sense, even rear firing. Guess that's why we rarely hear of them.

Must be lots of fertile info on big ol' ungainly bombers like the triplane Caproni Ca.4-1917 and the Kalinin K-7 1933. Or the little single-engine Macchi M.41 bis 1929 which is one of the prettiest biplane seaplanes.