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Offline SnakeEyes

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« on: October 29, 2000, 08:34:00 AM »
Let's have it!!

 

Hehe... just jokin'!

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« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2000, 08:50:00 AM »
I'd be feel a tad uneasy about flying an aircraft called "Fireball" That and it sucked.  
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« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2000, 10:38:00 AM »
I don't think it sucked, per se... I think it was more an issue that the F4U and F8F filled its potential roles better, and that the two engines created more maintenance.

Its performance was decent, but certainly not earth-shattering (426 TAS at 18.5K), especially with the obvious arrival of the Jet Age.

Ok, so you want something a little hotter?  Howabout this?

 

 

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Offline Replicant

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« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2000, 11:22:00 AM »
Snake, is that a MB3 or MB5 in your sig pic?

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« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2000, 11:29:00 AM »
That's the M.B.5.

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« Reply #5 on: October 29, 2000, 02:46:00 PM »
SnakeEyes said:
> That's the M.B.5.

One is being built (sorta) 15 miles from here at the Stead airport. But ya knew that, right?

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Offline SnakeEyes

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« Reply #6 on: October 29, 2000, 02:54:00 PM »
Yah, I saw that.  Pretty cool!

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« Reply #7 on: October 29, 2000, 04:58:00 PM »
Mb5 would be the perk plane that I would like the most. Both it and the fireball are based on the Fw190 you know.
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« Reply #8 on: October 29, 2000, 10:08:00 PM »
The Fw 190 had a jet engine?

Seriously, afaik these planes had some inspiration or design taken from the Fw 190A

1. Hawker Fury - designed to meet a specification drawn up after the British examined the Fw 190A-3.

2. Hawker Tempest Mk II - engine installation used much of the same tech as the Fw 190A after Hawker engineers studied it's engine installation.

3. Ki-100 - Japanese studied the Fw 190A engine mount and applied it to the Ki-61 airframe to make the radial engined Ki-100.

4. F8F was "inspired" by the Fw 190A. Ie: put a 2100HP radial(R-2800-34W) in the smallest possible airframe, rather than putting a bigger engine in an existing airframe(R-4360 in F2G).

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« Reply #9 on: October 31, 2000, 09:16:00 AM »
Pongo was kidding I think.  
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Offline Kieren

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« Reply #10 on: October 31, 2000, 10:58:00 AM »
From what I've read the F4U was designed to be the smallest airframe in which to install the biggest engine (with the technology of the time), so....

The Corsair must have been inspired by the Fw 190 (the Germans having the patent on the "small airframe/big engine" concept).  
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« Reply #11 on: October 31, 2000, 11:37:00 AM »
Kieren,

Interesting theory. Except the Corsair was designed in 1939. Before the FW-190 I believe. So the FW-190 was copied from the F4U. HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHHAH AHAHHAHA

 
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« Reply #12 on: October 31, 2000, 02:37:00 PM »
 
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Kieren,

Interesting theory. Except the Corsair was designed in 1939. Before the FW-190 I believe. So the FW-190 was copied from the F4U. HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHHAH AHAHHAHA

 
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What's really weird is the F6F is one of the newer designs of all the Double-Wasp US fighters, yet is considered an old POS when compaired to the P-47, F4U, etc.

Hard to think of the F6F as being flown for the first time in '43  

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Offline Jigster

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« Reply #13 on: October 31, 2000, 02:38:00 PM »
Btw we all know the Fw was based on the F4F.

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« Reply #14 on: October 31, 2000, 02:51:00 PM »
 
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Kieren,

Interesting theory. Except the Corsair was designed in 1939. Before the FW-190 I believe. So the FW-190 was copied from the F4U. HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHHAH AHAHHAHA

 
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Well then check your history books again, because while the Hog was only a pencil trace on a paper, the Fw190V1 was already flying.

So, less laughter, man. Less laughter  
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