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Post by GundamZero on Feb 14, 2004 8:37:01 GMT -5
Talk About The Lancaster, The B-17, The B-24, B-25, And The B-29 Here!
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Post by Alex on Feb 17, 2004 7:08:22 GMT -5
B-29!!! I like it.
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Post by GundamZero on Feb 17, 2004 13:56:09 GMT -5
Yeah, The SuperFortress Was The Plane That Enabled Us To Lower The Boom And End The War.
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Post by Alex on Feb 18, 2004 7:33:35 GMT -5
I like it!
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Post by GundamZero on Feb 18, 2004 10:05:18 GMT -5
Me Too.
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Post by Rahman on Aug 11, 2004 5:10:00 GMT -5
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Post by GundamZero on Aug 11, 2004 6:25:32 GMT -5
THX!!!!!!! I'll check 'em out! ;D
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Post by Rahman on Aug 15, 2004 1:27:50 GMT -5
ok no prob
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Post by GundamZero on Aug 23, 2004 6:05:45 GMT -5
Any new pics?
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Post by flyboy315 on Jun 13, 2005 8:47:57 GMT -5
I would like to have the Superfortresses' engines. Wright R-3380 2,200 hp 18 cylinder two-row radials. Very compact. The b-29 was the first to have the fowler flap. To get the bomber's high speed, it had very wide, narrow wings. this caused high wing-loading, creating takeoff and landing speeds over 50 knots faster than its elder sister, the b-17. Boeing created a set of flaps that were larger than most pearl harbor era fighter aircraft wings, and made them to slide rearward on tracks, making the wings have a higher wing area, decreasing the landing and takeoff speeds to a more acceptable 120 knots.
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Post by GundamZero on Jun 13, 2005 20:27:01 GMT -5
Yeah. The B-29 kicked @$$ in every way.
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Post by flyboy315 on Jul 24, 2005 11:49:26 GMT -5
The b-29 was a very thought out bomber in all ways. Very precise. They still were using them during Korea, but the Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-15 took a heavy toll on them.
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Post by GundamZero on Jul 24, 2005 14:16:24 GMT -5
Yeah. D@mned MiG-15's!
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Post by flyboy315 on Aug 7, 2005 14:39:43 GMT -5
During Korea, they discovered the MiG-15, and the US offered something like a 20,000 dollar award if a soviet pilot would fly in a fully armed MiG-15. The next week, a MiG came in and the pilot defected. Chuck Yeager and another well known pilot took trials in mock dogfights between The MiG and the F-86 Sabre. Yeager had the Sabre, and, of course he won. When Chuck got the MiG, they began another dogfight. In this one, he also won. This proved that it wasn't one aircraft being better than another, but one pilot being better than another.
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Post by GundamZero on Aug 7, 2005 14:58:13 GMT -5
Chuck Yeager said it himself: "It's the man, not the machine."
I know about that pilot that defected with the MiG-15. His name was Kim Sok Ho. I got that info from a 10-game CD for DOS that I still have. One of the games is Chuck Yeager's Air Combat, and it lets you fly planes from WWII, on up to the Vietnam War's F-4 Phantom. There's even a create-a-mission mode where you can take any plane in the game, and fly against up to 12 computer controlled enemies. My fave scenario was mixing the F-4 Phantom against some idiot Nazis in FW-190's, He-111's, and Me-262's. The result: DEAD NAZI'S!
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