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Re: Weird things you learn about aeroplanes....
Posted: May 3rd, 2014, 10:06 am
by Eric Mc
But the F-22 was also called the Lightning II too - before they settled on the name "Raptor".
Re: Weird things you learn about aeroplanes....
Posted: May 3rd, 2014, 3:16 pm
by DazDaMan
Was not aware of that!
Re: Weird things you learn about aeroplanes....
Posted: May 19th, 2014, 2:48 pm
by bluesteel
The wing-tips of early Grumman Bearcats had explosive charges embedded in them designed to blow them off if too much G (over 7.5G) is pulled to save damaging the whole airframe and possibly the pilot!
Re: Weird things you learn about aeroplanes....
Posted: May 19th, 2014, 3:04 pm
by PaulBradley
Trouble with that is that they often didn't blow at the same time, or only one activated, causing more problems than it was worth.
Re: Weird things you learn about aeroplanes....
Posted: May 19th, 2014, 6:49 pm
by DazDaMan
The modifications made to the AT-6s for the film Tora! Tora! Tora! to turn them in to A6M Zeros actually gave a slight increase in the Harvard's performance!
Re: Weird things you learn about aeroplanes....
Posted: May 20th, 2014, 2:54 am
by BlohmWolf
DazDaMan wrote:The modifications made to the AT-6s for the film Tora! Tora! Tora! to turn them in to A6M Zeros actually gave a slight increase in the Harvard's performance!
The same goes for The Final Countdown. Maybe they should have kept the design anyway.
Re: Weird things you learn about aeroplanes....
Posted: May 21st, 2014, 6:47 am
by Eric Mc
Those Harvard/Zeros have appeared in quite a few films and TV shows.