Planes
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Catogrande said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - Overall:
A great picture of the most successful British fighter of the Battle of Britain & WW2 -and a Spitfire...
Helps that there were twice as many Hurricanes than Spitfires deployed during the BoB. Though I do feel sort of sorry for the Hurricane as the Andrew Ridgely of the whole thing.
The Hurricane could take way more punishment and was way easier to repair than the Spitfire so that kept the number high as well. Was surprised to read the Hurricane was more maneuverable and more often than not better in a dogfight than either the Spit or an ME109
Quicker and cheaper to build too.
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@Catogrande said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Catogrande said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - Overall:
A great picture of the most successful British fighter of the Battle of Britain & WW2 -and a Spitfire...
Helps that there were twice as many Hurricanes than Spitfires deployed during the BoB. Though I do feel sort of sorry for the Hurricane as the Andrew Ridgely of the whole thing.
The Hurricane could take way more punishment and was way easier to repair than the Spitfire so that kept the number high as well. Was surprised to read the Hurricane was more maneuverable and more often than not better in a dogfight than either the Spit or an ME109
Quicker and cheaper to build too.
Wood frame and canvas instead of metal outer skin
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@canefan said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Catogrande said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Catogrande said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - Overall:
A great picture of the most successful British fighter of the Battle of Britain & WW2 -and a Spitfire...
Helps that there were twice as many Hurricanes than Spitfires deployed during the BoB. Though I do feel sort of sorry for the Hurricane as the Andrew Ridgely of the whole thing.
The Hurricane could take way more punishment and was way easier to repair than the Spitfire so that kept the number high as well. Was surprised to read the Hurricane was more maneuverable and more often than not better in a dogfight than either the Spit or an ME109
Quicker and cheaper to build too.
Wood frame and canvas instead of metal outer skin
Metal by the time of the "Battle of Britain". Flight controls were still fabric I think. Fuselage was timber stringers covered in doped linen. Took about 2/3 of the amount of time to build as a spitfire. 10,000 hour off the top of my head.
"A fabric-covered wing patterned upon traditional Hawker designs was initially adopted in order to speed up production; a higher-performing stressed-skin metal wing took its place in late 1939."
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Squeaky bum time
Taking off from strips like that actually isn't too bad. You've got instant altitude when you go off the end, and can trade that for airspeed as long as you actually pole forward so as to not whack the tail (never heard of that happening though). The Hillary crash was due to a gust lock being still in place on the ailerons IIRC. When it says "remove before flight" you really should.
Landing on one way strips with no escape option is definitely more squeaky bum.
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@R-L I've still got that loving feeling - the Rayban aviators are long gone though.
I actually took @Bones Honey's advice and went for a pootle in my Liklik balus the other day to give the engine a run. CAA have approved maintenance on aircraft under level 3 so is legit. Thought that I might do a Captain Tom (I really wish he was a Major) and just taxi up and down the airstrip 100 times.
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@Snowy question... Did you look like this?
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@R-L said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Snowy question... Did you look like this?
Yes. Yes I did.
I still do, sadly Val doesn't. -
@R-L said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Snowy question... Did you look like this?
Yes that’s how he gets all his new friends I mean victims..
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@Snowy do pilots really have nicknames on their helmets? What's yours?
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@R-L said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Snowy do pilots really have nicknames on their helmets? What's yours?
My guess is Jeffrey Dahmer..
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@R-L said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Snowy do pilots really have nicknames on their helmets? What's yours?
I was never in the military (in other words I always had a real job) but let's stick with the theme - I'll be "Killer".
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Crazy cloggy!
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@Machpants said in Planes:
Crazy cloggy!
Certainly crazy - if you are going to steal a plane why the fuck would you take a Grumman tracker?
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Metal by the time of the "Battle of Britain". Flight controls were still fabric I think. Fuselage was timber stringers covered in doped linen. Took about 2/3 of the amount of time to build as a spitfire. 10,000 hour off the top of my head.
Can well believe it. Just building a Guillows Spitfire balsa & tissue kit and the elliptical wings - groundbreaking for their time - are a real bitch to cover properly.
Bloody nightmare.
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