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[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by swiss

A bit OT but,
next time you're in the Imperial Museum of War in London, have look at the Zero tail there, focus on the fasteners and the used technique.

nice, I spent 10 mins browsing the interweb looking for images! LOL

What are they like?

[swiss]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

nice, I spent 10 mins browsing the interweb looking for images! LOL
What are they like?

The thing that catched my attention was the use of thousands of castle nuts, but not secured with a pin, but a tiny piece of wire, individually cut and patiently bent around each bolt(iirc they used it to attach the sheetmetal to the frame)
It's something that makes you cry in despair if you think about the poor bastard who had to do this - but it's also a beautiful example of high quality Japanese craftsmanship....
...and waste of precious time in such situations.

[TomcatViP]

This is not Japanese

Or might be one or two of them lost in UK hapend to work here

Regarding the photo : not really inside but...somehow !

[He111]

Originally Posted by Tavingon

Please share here,



Hampden cockpit

I want .. I want .. so BAD! .. a true fighter - bomber.

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[TomcatViP]

High above the horizon... in the dark of space*


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=VBnkbeGLGk4



One though to J.Adams

The best book I have read on this story is this one from Thompson, one of the test pilot of the NASA (ex-Bell) . In this book you have the detailled retranscrition of radio com during the last tragic flight of Adams. A thrilling read when his plane departed at hypersonic flight during re-entry (I am in a spin... I am in a spin) - nothing he could hve done with such primary flight ctrls

~S

*far far away from our digressions...

EDIT: good source of info online : http://history.nasa.gov/SP-60/toc.html

EDIT bis: Milton Thompson at 16min25sec here :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y1BmHsv-hs&feature=plcp

[zakkandrachoff]

p40 bip

cessna

[Tavingon]

I really do think BOM will have ju52

[Richie]

Hi Everybody.

I was wondering if any of you out there have read this. I've only read one allied book all the way threw because I find them boring compared to the constant action day after day year after year of the German fighter pilots. Nothing like getting chased by Russians threw a field of sunflowers with bullets wizzing by your head. Or gradually pulling away from a bunch of 51s on your six by out flying them but finally running out of fuel still being able to bail though. There's a damn good movie in that book Anyway this looks like it might be very good.


http://www.amazon.com/Messerschmitt-.../dp/1840374268

[Sternjaeger II]

for "alternative" aviation reads you should try some great classics like:

"The Big Show" by Pierre Clostermann (dramatically beautiful and graphic at times!)

"Samurai" by Saburo Sakai (there are some bits of his book that could well make a beautiful movie, like when he's trying to chase fleeing bombers but he's too low and slow, and screams in anger as they get further and further away)

"Stuka Pilot" by Hans Ulrich Rudel (which I suppose you know)

"The Blond Knight of Germany" by Erich Hartmann

"Baa Baa Black Sheep" gives a very unusual insight into war in Asia

"My Logbook" by Gunther Rall

"Spitfire on my tail" by Ulrich Steinhilper

then if you have some time and money to invest:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_...pilots&x=0&y=0

I have a plethora of Italian books too, some of them are incredibly well written and tell some unheard stories, too bad there's no translated versions of them

[Sternjaeger II]

I was kinda wondering about that one when I saw it in a bookshop, didn't have time to look through it, but I was wondering if it was written through his memoirs or it's just a bio.