AIRPLANE NUTS?

[frank_f15]

AIRPLANE NUTS?

BEING AN AIRPLANE NUT, went to the air and space museum in NIAGARA FALLS N.Y. (ONLY AN HOUR DRIVE) took a few shots and thougth i would share a few. most of these were of small models as the real planes were to hard to fit in the view finder and the lighting was not good.

 

[frank_f15]

Re: AIRPLANE NUTS?

here is a shot of a model of the stealth bomber

 

[frank_f15]

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here is a shot of a very sleek looking plane , don't know its designation but just looked fast

 

[frank_f15]

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here is another of an older airplane

 

[Golfgar4]

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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( here is a shot of a very sleek looking plane , don't know its designation but just looked fast )</font>

Frank,

Isn't that a P-51 Mustang? Kind of looks like one.

 

[Egon]

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That may be a P51 Frank. Think it was the fastest propeller driven fighter.

Egon

 

[SimS]

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Looks like a P-39 Aircobra. It was also weird in that it had the engine behind the pilot. I think they were pretty fast but the CG goofed up the handling.
Sim

 

[higgy]

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It is an aircobra which was a p-39 made by bell aircraft co., the engine was behind the cockpit that is wht the scoop was mounted up and behind. Needless to say after this informal USAAF ballad, the P-39 was not popular with American or British air forces. Because of its novel engine mounting, which was behind the cockpit driving the airscrew by means of a shaft running literally between the pilots legs, the centre of gravity was highly centralised. This tended to create an unpleasant phenomenon, where the aircraft would get into a 'pankake' like spin horizontally, with little or no warning to the pilot.

What it was good at was allowing the machine gun actually a T9 37 mm cannon that shot from the spinner, making it a heavy weight hitter for ground attack.

It was not popular in the ETO as it suffered in high altitude perfomance.

Dane

 

[Inspector507]

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P-39 courtesy of the USAF Museum

 

[Inspector507]

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In flight and firing weapons