YM fails its history GCSE

!63 is correct and have edited /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif didn't know about the last one that must have been fun to fly
 
Thanks, that's really informative. But that Bachem Ba 349? That must have been an incredibly frightening, almost suicidal sortie for the time? I'm surprised they were still conscious when they reached operating height.
 
In 1951 there was a ME163 standing outside one of the hangers at R A F Little Rissington Glos. It had 'elervons' (combined elevator/alerions) (spel?) Wonder where it is now
 
If you're interested, I would recommend reading "Wings on my Sleeve" by 'Winkle' Brown. At the end of WWII he was CO of the Enemy Aircraft Flight at RAE Farmborough, and had the job of searching Germany for aircraft to be brought back to Farnborough for testing. At one time he held the record for the greatest number of aircraft types flown; his book lists 488 types (not Marks, just types, the 14 different Marks of Spitfire just count as one type).
 
History, Geography, Economics, spelling .....

And geometry. In the May edition they declared that the diameter of a prop was the distance from the centre of the hub to the tip of the blade. Not a misprint either, it was in the text and a diagram!
 
I should probably also chip in that their geology isn't up to much either, after the minor Folkestone earthquake the other year the headline "Krakatau East of Folkestone" hit their illustrious pages - as any fule knows Krakatau is a volcano
 
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Hanna Reitsch is well worth looking up for flying the Me163.....

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Although Reitsch (who was a fervent Nazi) was found in the American sector, Winkle Brown was allowed to interrogate her. One reason was that he wanted to get as much information as possible on the Me163 before he flew it himself. He says that he was disappointed, because Reitsch had never been allowed to make a rocket-driven flight. Her production test flights had all been made from towed glides.
 
As this item seems ti have turned aeronoutical. Anyone have details of the HEINKLE observation plane that had one wing, one engine and one horizontal elevator ? - completely lopsided aircraft
 
If my 17" props were 34" from tip to tip, SL would probably fly.

Or imagine asking for a 6" prop for a 30 footer and getting something fit for an egg whisk.

Or indeed a 15" wheel for your car could turn out to be the right size for a wheelbarrow or a 40 ton truck.

The author of the article may kid himself that size doesn't matter but I think we know better /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
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As this item seems ti have turned aeronoutical. Anyone have details of the HEINKLE observation plane that had one wing, one engine and one horizontal elevator ? - completely lopsided aircraft

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The "Heinkel" lopsided aircraft was actually the Blohm und Voss Bv141(A or B). Incidentally I was up on Epsom Downs recently and saw someone flying a scale model of the Bv 141B. Strange looking thing.
 
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Reitsch also test flew early V1s (doodle bugs)I believe. She was a well known glider pilot before and after the war.

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It wa a modified V1, with a small cabin ahead of the engine. I remember seeing it at Farnborough in 1945. I believe she was badly injured in landing it.
 
Beleive it or not, the Luftwaffe had a serious project at one stage for a coal fired aircraft. Pulverised coal as a fluid for use as ject or rocket fuel. One of Lippisch's "lifting body" style designs subsequently beloved of 1950's science fiction.
 
It was even funnier at the time. Pulverised fuel was not well known at the time, and when it was announced that the Germans had planned a coal-fired aircraft one of the magazines produced an imaginative drawing showing a ram-jet with a coal-fired brazier in the combustion chamber. Not intended to be funny, but .............
 
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