Wed Apr 18, 2012 8:26 pm
Jesse C. wrote:As much as I would love to believe it, I think it is not real. You can manipulate images very easily today and this might be a real good job of a combination of images and some artistic license.
Wed Apr 18, 2012 8:26 pm
51fixer wrote:Close ups seem real.
Can someone read the cameral data to know if this is scanned from an photo or are the photos from a digital camera?
Wed Apr 18, 2012 8:40 pm
Wed Apr 18, 2012 11:21 pm
Thu Apr 19, 2012 6:15 am
Thu Apr 19, 2012 6:17 am
Thu Apr 19, 2012 6:21 am
Steve Nelson wrote:I admit I know little about the technical side of things, but I think I read somewhere that on British aircraft the throttle moved in the opposite direction as American (or was that French throttles that were "backwards?") I know this is a US-built aircraft, but did Lend-Lease planes have the controls configured to Brit specs?
This really is an incredible find..does anyone know exactly what country it's in? Hopefully a responsible party will recover the aircraft before the scrappers and souvenir hunters destroy it.
SN
Thu Apr 19, 2012 6:54 am
Steve Nelson wrote:I admit I know little about the technical side of things, but I think I read somewhere that on British aircraft the throttle moved in the opposite direction as American (or was that French throttles that were "backwards?") I know this is a US-built aircraft, but did Lend-Lease planes have the controls configured to Brit specs?
This really is an incredible find..does anyone know exactly what country it's in? Hopefully a responsible party will recover the aircraft before the scrappers and souvenir hunters destroy it.
SN
Thu Apr 19, 2012 7:02 am
Thu Apr 19, 2012 7:25 am
Thu Apr 19, 2012 7:56 am
Thu Apr 19, 2012 8:19 am
Steve Nelson wrote:I admit I know little about the technical side of things, but I think I read somewhere that on British aircraft the throttle moved in the opposite direction as American (or was that French throttles that were "backwards?") I know this is a US-built aircraft, but did Lend-Lease planes have the controls configured to Brit specs?
Pathfinder wrote:Looking at the prop hub....I see two (2) blades. One is bent backward and one is bent forward with what appears to be equal bend.
Is that the third blade at the starboard wing/forward fuselage root...pointing up at the exhaust manifold?
Thu Apr 19, 2012 8:28 am
Thu Apr 19, 2012 8:36 am
Thu Apr 19, 2012 8:59 am