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Title: Name This Plane (9)
Post by: Dowding on December 12, 2000, 07:54:00 PM

How about this one:

 (http://www.military.cz/british/air/war/fighter/whirlwind/whirl_inflbw.jpg)  

 (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

Title: Name This Plane (9)
Post by: ra on December 12, 2000, 08:09:00 PM

Westland Whirlwind.


ra

[This message has been edited by ra (edited 12-12-2000).]

Title: Name This Plane (9)
Post by: brady on December 12, 2000, 09:03:00 PM

A small, fast twin-engined fighter, one of the first to be armed with four 20mm cannon. The Whirlwind was a fine fighter that could combat single-engined fighters with success. It had the misfortune that the development and production of the R.R. Peregrine engine was halted, and no alternative was available. The Whirlwind was tailored to this engine and the original specification. When the Hurricane and Spitfire proved to be able to carry the 20mm cannon, and the Beaufighter filled in the heavy fighter role, interest in the Whirlwind faded. Another defiency was its short range, with a radius of action of only 240km. It served in small numbers (116 built) as fighter-bomber.
Type: Whirlwind Mk. IA
Function: fighter
Year: 1940 Crew: 1 Engines: 2 * 660kW R.R. Peregrine I
Wing Span: 13.72m Length: 9.83m Height: Wing Area: 23.22m2
Empty Weight: 3768kg Max. Weight: 5175kg
Speed: 580km/h Ceiling: 9240m Range: 1300km
Armament: 4*g20mm b453kg
 http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~pettypi/elevon/gustin_military/db/br/WHIRLW00.html (http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~pettypi/elevon/gustin_military/db/br/WHIRLW00.html)


 A very cool plane  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

        Brady


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[This message has been edited by brady (edited 12-12-2000).]

Title: Name This Plane (9)
Post by: Replicant on December 13, 2000, 12:32:00 PM

Without double checking, I believe that particular Whirlwind was from the same squadron as 'our' AH Typhoon.

Regards

Nexx

Title: Name This Plane (9)
Post by: Dowding on December 13, 2000, 02:09:00 PM

It looks like it should be a very quick, decent plane. But it was in reality, rather disappointing.

If you edit my message, you can find out the website it came from - it had a fair bit of info. on there, maybe even squadron information.

Title: Name This Plane (9)
Post by: senna on December 15, 2000, 11:03:00 AM

Is a p-38  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

-- senna

 

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Originally posted by Dowding:
How about this one:

  (http://www.military.cz/british/air/war/fighter/whirlwind/whirl_inflbw.jpg)  

  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)