TEST BOMBER PICS...

Sun Jul 06, 2008 3:19 am

Great shots,dont know if you all have seen.

Sun Jul 06, 2008 3:41 am

Wow...Great Stuff!!! More Please Suhh??

PS...are you watching TCM right now? Gary Cooper and Helldivers..

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Sun Jul 06, 2008 3:43 am

WHAT ARE YOU DOING STILL UP !!!

Sun Jul 06, 2008 3:59 am

kenlyco wrote:WHAT ARE YOU DOING STILL UP !!!

4th of July weekend..An old airplane movie., "Task Force"..Sybil-driver has taken a powder for awhile...Surfin' the WIX..Tall Cotton Baby :lol:

Sun Jul 06, 2008 5:11 am

MISC.

Sun Jul 06, 2008 11:57 am

That crashed B-24.... Gary really isn't going to like that.

-Dennis S.
Arvada, CO

Sun Jul 06, 2008 3:24 pm

Sun Jul 06, 2008 9:49 pm

Dennis7423 wrote:That crashed B-24.... Gary really isn't going to like that.

-Dennis S.
Arvada, CO

That might be a test of the hydroflap to provide better ditching characteristics. Any additional photos of that one?

Sun Jul 06, 2008 11:28 pm

Whats the poop on the A-26 with the spinners and beavertail nacelles? I'd guess the hay rake attached to the nacelles aft end was some sort of air pressure or flow measuring inputs :?:

Sun Jul 06, 2008 11:57 pm

What did they keep in the hangar in the 4th pic... The USS Missouri??

Mon Jul 07, 2008 12:43 am

Tailspin Turtle wrote:
Dennis7423 wrote:That crashed B-24.... Gary really isn't going to like that.

-Dennis S.
Arvada, CO

That might be a test of the hydroflap to provide better ditching characteristics. Any additional photos of that one?

From Steve Birdsall's book "Log of the Liberators"

I thought that B24 looked familier. Seems to be the same one

Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:43 am

that first photo of the ditching tester... How did that guy get out there?? :shock:

Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:57 am

That B-24 ditching operation was partly to test shoring the bomb bay doors so they wouldn't cave in during the ditching. At some point there was a "ditching kit" added to the airplanes that consisted of some bracing that could be installed to help hold the doors somewhat closed when they hit the water. It actually seems to have worked here, but the nose doors and forward fuselage still caused typical problems. There were more tests to try to solve the problems caused by the top turret and flight deck being squashed together in a crash landing.

That B-50 mother ship was burned to the ground in November of '51 when the tanks on the X-1 ruptured after landing. In fact, it was the X-1 in the picture that was involved.

Great photos, kenlyco!
Scott