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10-04-2008, 05:01 AM
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__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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10-04-2008, 05:18 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | I imagine so, Spidgeman, Jugs were heavy...heaviest single engined fighter in the USAAF. From the same site in the interests of consistency. P-61 and P-70 would have been heavier of course but they had an extra engine! Empty Weight: 11,000 lbs (4990 kg) Max Weight: 20,700 lbs (9389 kg)
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp  Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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11-04-2008, 02:32 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | For a bloody big aircraft, the Corsair is quite the lightweight. Same website used again: Empty Weight: 9205 lbs (4174 kg) Gross Weight: 14669 lbs (6653 kg) The Typhoon was probably up there for being the heaviest British designed single-engined fighter type aircraft used by the RAF but is still, if we can use these figures as a rough guide since they're not all from the same source, lighter than the Mustang if flown without underwing ordnance! Hawker Typhoon - fighter Take-off weight 5170 kg 11398 lb Empty weight 3992 kg 8801 lb The Hawker Typhoon and Tempest - Great Britain Without its underwing load the Typhoon IB weighed 11,300 lbs., and with two 500-lb. bombs and the necessary racks, 12,400 lbs. The Hawker Tempest Page The Mk I Tempest was, of course, lighter, but the Mk V appears to have been the same weight as a Tiffy despite its much thinner wing: Weight (empty): 9,000lb Weight (loaded):11,400lb
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. Last edited by Antipodean Andy; 11-04-2008 at 03:02 AM. |
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12-04-2008, 02:02 PM
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You're Top Poster: #29  | Not mentioned in a lot of the blurb on the "Cadillac of the skies" was the fact that a number of them fell apart in the air pulling out of dives and in very tight turns when a wheel door crept open and the landing gear (sorry, "undercarriage" - this is the UK) came out, resulting in the machine disintegrating in the air. On some of the F.14s (Accident Reports) for P-51 crashes in this region in 1944-45, one of the first things the investigating officers did if there was any suggestion of a mid-air break-up was to check the area of the wheel doors. BC |
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12-04-2008, 02:55 PM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Interesting that they would do this, BC1. I've seen many pics of Mustangs on the ground with the doors bleeding down due to lack of hydraulic pressure with the engine stopped. Sounds like the mechanism itself could only withstand so much based on the F.14s you've analysed. Learn something new every day. Thanks BC1.
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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