That'll be the Martin B10 ? Here's one I took last year (in colour so it must be a new picture ! ). If I'm correct ...could be a sub variant...I'll pose a suitable shot tommorrow.
Well done Gary. It is indeed a B10 - 'B' to be exact. Ugly little bugger. Over to you for the next question
Hope you don't mind me jumping in here, Gary, but thought I might throw this in before I forget. What is this tail section from? For something different, provide photographic evidence to support your answer (if you want!).
Sigh, okay, so it's not hard! A tail section found by a mate of mine recently. Believe it or not, the RAAF Museum knocked back its donation as it has enough Hudson bits to make a whole one!
The door and window openings suggested it was an aircraft originally intended as a passenger-carrier. The give-away was the aperture in the roof at the rear end of the cabin, where a Hudson's gun turret was. Add to that an oval-section fuselage and a blanked-off rear fuselage i.e. no tail turret, and I became fairly certain.
Can I ask one without knowing the answer to the one before ??:noidea: Does anybody know why the WWII F4-U Corsair had bent wings ?
ooooh ooooh ! yes I do .... of course I Googled .. is that cheating ?? Air Marshal Sir John Frederick Andrews Higgins (1875-1948)
To accommodate the landing gear. Since the landing gear had to be very strong to withstand the pounding of a carrier deck landing, a short, stout leg was required. Also, there wouldn’t be enough room in the wing to properly stow a longer gear. And, if the prop were shortened, much of the horsepower of the Double Wasp would be wasted. So, Vought engineers came up with the distinctive inverted gull-wing design which forever characterized the F4U Corsair. This "bent wing" design allowed the huge prop to clear the deck while providing for a short, stout landing gear. And, as a byproduct, the wing also improved the aerodynamics of the intersection where the wing attaches to the fuselage, boosting the top speed.
Well done Anie, that is correct. In fact I am currently reading Barker's history of the RFC and that made me laugh. The F4 was built with a very large engine, and used a large propellor. For ground clearance a very tall under-carriage would have been required. But this was difficult to accomodate, so bent wings were developed, so take a short under-carriage. It was also found to be aerodynamically good.
Now you went all techie on me CXX !! :noidea::noidea: ..... I think you said the same as this !! :becky: Because to land on an aircraft carrier the struts had to be small to take the forces, and yet allow the propellor arc to clear the flight deck. And you too K !!
I wish I'd seen this one earlier! The Corsair is a favourite of mine. View attachment 2371 Next question please???? Cheers Owen
Time to get this thread going again. For you aviation buffs. Attached is a picture of an Airspeed Horsa being towed. What is the towing aircraft?
Hi Andy, I think you're right. The flat back and absence of a tail turret is fairly distinctive. The photo unfortunately clips the lower portion of the tail fin. Good one David! Cheers Owen
