Oolite Bulletins

Diziet Sma wrote:

DaddyHoggy wrote:

And I've changed my mind I don't want a Spitfire - I want a Mosquito (two spitfires strung between bits of wood! )

Durn.. you beat me to it! In my teens I had a 32nd scale Airfix model of one, with what I still feel was the best paint-job I ever did.

We can share - two man crew and we can have an engine each!

Deal!

Unfortunately, closest I ever got to flying one of such beauties was Aces over Europe.

I'd probably pick FW 190 D. Or Mosquito XVIII-It'd probably be a station buster with its 57mm cannon.

Mosquito in flight:

Thank-you - I have a new wallpaper....

Disembodied wrote:

I grew up near Leuchars airbase – I remember seeing the decidedly Cobra-esque Vulcan bombers rumbling past.

In my University years I'd work on a farm over the summer in Lincolshire and I remember one afternoon when a Vulcan (possibly the Vulcan, given there is only one flying) flew over the farm at a fairly sedate pace and circled the fields where I was working a few times.

Simply an amazing sight, everyone stared at it in awe. Truly a majestic aircraft.

And as we're linking piccies of our fav planes in flight, here's one of the Typhoon. Sadly I couldn't find a picture with the classic sharks tooth motif over the ram intake, that makes the plane very reminiscent of the Python Class Cruiser.

I was under the impression that the pcc was supposed to be reminiscent of this:

An A10 Thunderbolt II?

El Viejo wrote:

Mosquito in flight:
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Now that's one very distinguished and very british wing.

It's a beautiful plane.

I was trying to get the background info on the actual plane, wondering if it was the same plane as in the painting Diziet Sma posted. I don't recognise the language:

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95% ... squito.jpg

Any ideas?

edit: fool!!! it's japanese, isn't it.

El Viejo wrote:

It's a beautiful plane.

I was trying to get the background info on the actual plane, wondering if it was the same plane as in the painting Diziet Sma posted. I don't recognise the language:

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95% ... squito.jpg

Any ideas?

edit: fool!!! it's japanese, isn't it.

Different aircraft - or at least different variants of the Mosquito - things of note - painting - cowling over engine exhausts funnel hot gases backwards to aid thrust - in photo exhausts are uncowled and straight down. In painting, four cannons on the nose, in the picture it is still set up to have an observer (for its bombing role) in the nose.

Not that long ago I could have told you, or at least dug out the right books to look up the models/variants, but they're "put away" and not currently easy to get to.

Yeah but...I'm thinking the painting is imagined in combat mode, and possibly quite old. The photo is clearly quite new and there would probably have been retro-fitting to keep it flying. The cannon would have been removed, I reckon.
However, I'm no expert.

Strange that it popped-up on Japanese Wiki. It's just recently been blogged on Yahoo Japan.

El Viejo wrote:

Yeah but...I'm thinking the painting is imagined in combat mode, and possibly quite old. The photo is clearly quite new and there would probably have been retro-fitting to keep it flying. The cannon would have been removed, I reckon.
However, I'm no expert.

Strange that it popped-up on Japanese Wiki. It's just recently been blogged on Yahoo Japan.

Recognise anything on this page? http://www.mossie.org/models/Mosquito_models.htm

Synchronicity! I was just on that site, but hadn't thought to look at the models page. Very interesting. I was delving through the many variations and test models.
That led me to dig deeper into the P-51D. It's perfect for Oolite: The K-14 gun sight was introduced in October of 1944 to the -20NA and later blocks. This new gun sight helped the pilots score more hits especially in higher deflection angle attacks. The K-14 utilized an analog computer. The pilot had to dial in the wingspan of the enemy aircraft and the range. Then all he had to do (sounds easy) was to put the enemy aircraft in the gun sight and pull the trigger.

Regards

El Viejo wrote:

Yeah but...I'm thinking the painting is imagined in combat mode, and possibly quite old. The photo is clearly quite new and there would probably have been retro-fitting to keep it flying. The cannon would have been removed, I reckon.
However, I'm no expert.

The painting is from http://aircraftpaintings.googlepages.com/ ( look well down the page) and about that particular Mosquito it says

This 418 Sqn. R.C.A.F. (City of Edmonton) De Havilland Mosquito VI was flown by Russ Bannock DFC.The aircraft received the nose character “Hairless Joe”, an Al Capp cartoon character from the “Li’lAbner Dog Patch” series.Russ Bannock was credited with 25½ victories and 418 was the highest scoring Canadian Squadron during WWII accounting for the destruction of 178 enemy aircraft.

wackyman465 wrote:

An A10 Thunderbolt II?

I doubt it, the shark motif has been used on planes for decades before the A-10 appeared. If I could find a picture of a Typhoon (or Tempest) with the Shark's motif, it would make more sense.

Found one - only not entirely sure this is a Typhoon, could be a Hawker Tornado, but you get the general idea.