I've a 1917 Western Electric radiophone receiver as used in these primitive warbirds in my collection. I can only imagine the context of it's use a hundred years ago whenever I look at it.If I could go back in time and chat with any aces id chose Billy Bishop of my country with 72 kills and Eddie Rickenbacker of the U.S.A. at 26 kills.Just a few short years before they flew, planes were just getting off the ground.No parachutes allowed ! Shows you just how stupid the high command was.Bishop was number 3 in wwi aces behind only the red baron and Rene Foch of France.Id love to fly one of those planes .
I'm assuming it could, if the missing cartridge resistors were replaced and powered up.Very cool.Does it or can it function?What kind of collection do you have?Military,radios?
If I could go back in time and chat with any aces id chose Billy Bishop of my country with 72 kills and Eddie Rickenbacker of the U.S.A. at 26 kills.Just a few short years before they flew, planes were just getting off the ground.No parachutes allowed ! Shows you just how stupid the high command was.Bishop was number 3 in wwi aces behind only the red baron and Rene Foch of France.Id love to fly one of those planes .
Having Hitler over rule deployment decisions helped the allies.Thanks for sharing. i'm not even in my mid 40's yet but fascinated by all things WWII, probably due to my grandfather fighting in it.
In my limited knowledge, it's crazy all the things that ended up going the allies ways toward the end. which could have easy fell the other way
The SPAD XIII with the 220hp Hiso is the same size and weight as my Great Lakes but with 40 more hp. Speeds are very close to the same as well. Granted the flying qualities of my GL may be more civilized it still shows how advances in aviation were made in just 3 or 4 years during a war.I too would also like to feel the rush of the noise/wind in my face, but it had better be a good day to fly. Those old biplanes were so underpowered and unpredictable.
Just a random thought this day.
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It already is - check out 'Reach For The Sky'@Quadman2 Douglas Bader's life would make a hell of a movie, as would Adolf Galland, Pappy Boyington, Francis Gabreski, and all those old school aces.
I was lucky enough back in November of 1996 to attend a Bowling Green Prayer Breakfast, and the speaker was the late Joe Foss (26 kills in the South Pacific, if memory serves).
I shook his hand, and got my picture with him, still on the wall. What a sweet, kind man.
If I could go back in time and chat with any aces id chose Billy Bishop of my country with 72 kills and Eddie Rickenbacker of the U.S.A. at 26 kills.Just a few short years before they flew, planes were just getting off the ground.No parachutes allowed ! Shows you just how stupid the high command was.Bishop was number 3 in wwi aces behind only the red baron and Rene Foch of France.Id love to fly one of those planes .
Sweet we have it for free. Full length. Good video quality.It already is - check out 'Reach For The Sky'
Here https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049665/
Talking of British WW2 Aces - ever heard of John 'Cat's Eyes' Cunningham ?
The "Gull" wings primary benefit was first to intersect the round fuselage at 90 degrees so as to obtain the lowest drag. Second to shorten the gear legs so they could be fitted between the wings spars and being shorter allows the legs to withstand carrier use without excess weight. Vintage aircraft pilot and engineering geek here.Thank you for posting this. I was spellbound the whole time. Talk about a humble man with a extraordinary career.
As an aside it was the British who figured out how to land a F4-U Corsair on a carrier. They showed the US how to bring it in sort of sideways so you could see the deck of the birdfarm. The nose was so long you had virtually no forward vision. The wing was gull shaped to allow clearance for the huge prop. It was 13' and change.
Here's the write up on how the British landed on a carrier.
It was the British who finally worked out a method of landing the Corsair on their carriers in spite of the visibility problems caused by the long nose. Instead of the normal downwind-crosswind-final approach method, the British simply turned downwind, then made a slow, continuous curve which aligned the Corsair with the deck only at the last second before the aircraft touched down and trapped. This method allowed the pilot to keep the Landing Signals Officer in view right up to the moment the plane was over the fan-tail where the LSO gave the sign to either "cut" or make another attempt.
Taken from this page.
http://www.aviation-history.com/vought/f4u.html
You guys really ought to watch this; it's 2 hr. 10. min long (don't believe the 3 plus hour marker).Sweet we have it for free. Full length. Good video quality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cunningham_(RAF_officer)Talking of British WW2 Aces - ever heard of John 'Cat's Eyes' Cunningham ?
Having Hitler over rule deployment decisions helped the allies.
ME 262 could have been in service much earlier.
This is just one example of Hitler's dictatorial know-it-all incompetence undercutting his vision of a "Thousand Year Reich". Twelve years of World-wide devastating disruption, and a costly legacy of lessons soon disregarded and forgotten to show for it.Having Hitler over rule deployment decisions helped the allies.
ME 262 could have been in service much earlier.