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Offline oakranger

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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #330 on: February 21, 2017, 08:43:51 PM »
Captain!  Found that missing propeller.  Been on your wing the whole time.

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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #331 on: February 22, 2017, 05:46:23 AM »
Quote from: oakranger on February 21, 2017, 08:43:51 PM
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that is a strange plance to install s propeller.  :headscratch:
Do you know the story behind this one?
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #332 on: February 22, 2017, 08:00:01 AM »
The airplane is a B-17, the propellor looks like the Ham/Stan used on the -17 and it appears to have part of the gear box attached to it.  My guess would be a runaway prop with loss of propellor....for some reason it "flew" to where it's at.  Most likely it is prop off of a different airplane, odd that a prop would "climb" to end up on top of the wing.
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #333 on: February 22, 2017, 12:54:04 PM »
Found some good colour pics...


Pep talk: Before taking off on a mission in 1944 a Flying Fortress crew in England receives a talk from 26-year-old Chaplain James O. Kincannon, a Van Bueren, Arkansas, minister affectionately known as 'Chaplain Jim'


Flying machine: A B-17 bomber makes its way to England to aid the British in World War II circa 1941


Easy riders: Three American military personnel, possibly ground crewmen, sit on their bicycles in front of a B-17 bomber named 'Berlin Sleeper II'


Power of precision: The VIII Bomber Command, commonly known as the Eighth Air Force, was assembled to strategically bomb Nazi-controlled cities after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor


An American soldier paints caricatures of Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito on the nose of a B-17 bomber named 'Flying Flit-Gun,' which originated from the 97th Bombardment Group of the 8th Bomber Command


Members of the flight and ground crews of a B-17 bomber named 'Honey Chile II' make adjustments to their plane prior to a mission, Polebrook, Northamptonshire, England, fall 1942


American photographer and journalist Margaret Bourke-White was the country's first accredited female photographer during WWII, and the first authorized to fly on a combat mission


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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #334 on: February 24, 2017, 10:50:59 PM »
I post this photo once and came across another of the same plane and more info.  What I thought was a 88mm turns out it was believe that a Swedish 40mm Bofor did this. 




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Offline MiloMorai

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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #335 on: February 24, 2017, 10:57:14 PM »
A certain un-named aviation expert would tell you that the engine should have vibrated apart.
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« Reply #336 on: February 25, 2017, 01:22:56 AM »
Quote from: MiloMorai on February 24, 2017, 10:57:14 PM
A certain un-named aviation expert would tell you that the engine should have vibrated apart.

Well, the pilot did said that the jug vibrated a little.  He had know idea that one prop had a gaping hole until he got home.
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #337 on: February 25, 2017, 08:53:23 AM »
He was really lucky the shell didn't explode. It doesn't look like the penetration actually removed much material from the prop blade, just bent it aside. So prop balance wouldn't have been much affected. Some of the vibration he felt could have come from the aerodynamic effects of having a crater in a prop blade. You can see that the blade outward of the hole has ballooned a little from air pressure getting inside the structure.
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #338 on: February 25, 2017, 11:31:23 AM »
Quote from: PR3D4TOR on February 25, 2017, 08:53:23 AM
He was really lucky the shell didn't explode. It doesn't look like the penetration actually removed much material from the prop blade, just bent it aside. So prop balance wouldn't have been much affected. Some of the vibration he felt could have come from the aerodynamic effects of having a crater in a prop blade. You can see that the blade outward of the hole has ballooned a little from air pressure getting inside the structure.

That is a Curtiss 836  blade. Hollow and two ply metal which is why made a gaping hole. 

As far as the 40mm Bofor, I am not sure if they have HE rounds.
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #339 on: February 25, 2017, 04:24:38 PM »
They certainly do have HE.
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #340 on: February 25, 2017, 04:46:56 PM »
Quote from: PR3D4TOR on February 25, 2017, 04:24:38 PM
They certainly do have HE.

Ah, maybe a dud.  iIDK
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #341 on: February 25, 2017, 06:17:45 PM »
Jerry didn't have radar controled guns like these, but yeah... He was very lucky.



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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #342 on: February 26, 2017, 04:49:30 AM »
And most important: no proximity fuses.
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« Reply #343 on: February 26, 2017, 08:56:41 AM »
No one had that for 40mm back then. They did use timed fuzes to create a wall of flak bursts outside their otherwise direct-fire effective range. Attacking aircraft would have to fly through this wall of shrapnel and once they got through it they were in danger of direct hits. Like the lucky P-47 above, tho he was hit by a parting shot.
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Re: Post your RL WWII Aircraft!
« Reply #344 on: May 25, 2017, 08:07:01 PM »
Wonder how much these kind of bombs were used?

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