#3704023 - 12/21/12 07:40 PM
Re: The Aircraft Identification Thread
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[/quote] There was quite a few of those over the years. [/quote] www.unp.me/f44/the-plane-that-never-took-off-56392/Too right. Check out this farce. An aircraft that should have flown - but in the hands of that bunch of idiots, never had a chance!
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#3705652 - 12/24/12 05:01 PM
Re: The Aircraft Identification Thread
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American dive bomber used by the Ozzies in SEA > Vultee Vengance.
Last edited by KraziKanuK; 12/24/12 05:01 PM.
There was only 16 squadrons of RAF fighters that used 100 octane during the BoB. The Fw190A could not fly with the outer cannon removed. There was no Fw190A-8s flying with the JGs in 1945.
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#3705658 - 12/24/12 05:05 PM
Re: The Aircraft Identification Thread
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Is it a Dauntless SBD?
*edit* No,I'm wrong.I think KraziKanuk has it.
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#3705673 - 12/24/12 05:27 PM
Re: The Aircraft Identification Thread
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Yes, definitely has the Vultee lineage about it, but looks like P-40 gear and an Avenger cowl, and rudder. The A-31 had a zero incidence wing which caused it to fly nose up resulting in poor visibility so they swept the middle section back giving it an awkward inverted gull wing appearance, only one example survives in a museum in Camden I believe.
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#3705713 - 12/24/12 06:07 PM
Re: The Aircraft Identification Thread
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I wonder if Sauron drops in now and again to check on his thread. Maybe he will post a comment in due course. wave Would be nice but I don't think he will.
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#3705859 - 12/24/12 09:20 PM
Re: The Aircraft Identification Thread
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KK has it! Right about the air force too, even though I sprayed out the roundel etc! My edit was change from Brits to Ozzies. About a year or so ago some nutter Brit, on another board, was going on about the RAFs lack of a dive bomber. He was 'hot' on the Vultee. Go again Dux.
There was only 16 squadrons of RAF fighters that used 100 octane during the BoB. The Fw190A could not fly with the outer cannon removed. There was no Fw190A-8s flying with the JGs in 1945.
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#3705885 - 12/24/12 09:50 PM
Re: The Aircraft Identification Thread
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Chaps, KK, The Fleet Air Arm had a dive bomber: The obsolescent Blackburn Skua which sank the Konigsberg in April 1940. Even if the RAF had one at that stage of the war it wouldn't have fared any better than the Ju87 - and probably far worse when considering the fate of the Battle a few weeks later. By Gad! This Cabernet-Shiraz-Merlot is going down a treat this Christmas Eve. Cheers, chaps!
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#3710220 - 01/01/13 10:40 PM
Re: The Aircraft Identification Thread
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Lockheed PV2 I think... impossible to identify sub-type (PV2D was hard nosed with an 8 gun battery).
Development of the Ventura (PV1) Either that or an AT-11
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#3710282 - 01/02/13 12:44 AM
Re: The Aircraft Identification Thread
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Agree with Lieste PV-2 Harpoon.
In all my years I've never seen the like. It has to be more than a hundred sea miles and he brings us up on his tail. That's seamanship, Mr. Pullings. My God, that's seamanship!
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