Stuka Request

[Romanator21]

Uhh, isn't that what the above pictures show?

[Rodolphe]

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The purpose of the "Pull-Up" device,

The elevator trim tab, which are used with the extension of the dive brakes,
goes back into their normal position at the bomb release.
Doing so, the trim tab initiates the "Pull-Up" manoeuvre from the dive.

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[Sven]

Thanks Romanator, I missed that picture!

Well I guess it is solved then.

But is it true that the dive brakes retracted automatically when the bomb was released? I know from IL2 that the trim function works.

I read somewhere, not entirely sure, that the pilot had to push some kind of button to make this happen prior of bomb release.

[Rodolphe]

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[Splitter]

Originally Posted by Romanator21

Uhh, isn't that what the above pictures show?

Not the way that it was described as I interpreted it. The rail was not there for a guide, the bomb was attached to the rail and lowered prior to release.

Damned ingenious design really.

Splitter

[winny]

Does anyone know if the rail was always there? Or was there some unfortunate pilot somewhere who discovered that all of a sudden he had no propeller?

[Romanator21]

Not the way that it was described as I interpreted it. The rail was not there for a guide, the bomb was attached to the rail and lowered prior to release.

Damned ingenious design really.

Then I guess I don't understand what you mean. Could you elaborate?

[Splitter]

Originally Posted by Romanator21

Then I guess I don't understand what you mean. Could you elaborate?

The way I read it, and it may not be how it was meant, was that the bomb was guided by the rail. My point was that the bomb was not released from the "belly" of the plane but was lowered on the rail prior and then released from there. I'm not sure id any other aircraft of the time had such a mechanism.

Splitter

[Rodolphe]

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Originally Posted by Splitter

I'm not sure id any other aircraft of the time had such a mechanism.

Splitter

A carrier-borne dive bomber called the Blackburn Skua

which owns the first confirmed "Kill" by a British aircraft in the Second World War.



Supreme Courage by Philip E. West

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[Splitter]

Originally Posted by winny

Does anyone know if the rail was always there? Or was there some unfortunate pilot somewhere who discovered that all of a sudden he had no propeller?

I know they had accidents in development, but I think the rail.sling was there from the start.

Splitter