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Post by bobajob on Aug 20, 2016 19:16:51 GMT 12
Great job, is there a DC-3 missing?
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Aug 20, 2016 19:22:04 GMT 12
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Post by harrysone on Aug 20, 2016 19:22:04 GMT 12
I do have a minicraft...but not great, I'll replace with Roden c-47 as Queens flight a/c at some stage 😊
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2016 10:38:39 GMT 12
Fine work Harry!
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Post by kiwiduster1 on Aug 21, 2016 10:51:09 GMT 12
Sweet !! Very nice grouping !!
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Post by nuuumannn on Aug 27, 2016 11:43:12 GMT 12
Nice line up Harry. Just to add to the Halifax/Hastings wing - apparently the centre section was the same and the internal structure of the outer panels, even though these differ in skin and detail. There are shared common parts, but nacelle structure and layout are completely different; the nacelles on the Hastings are set with the thrust line below the wing chord line, but the Halifaxes' was almost in line with it, with the outer engines canted slightly outwards. Note that the Lancaster's nacelles are lower than the Halifaxes on its wing.
The position of the nacelles on the Hali's wing caused a few headaches aerodynamically with the Merlin powered variants, as did the aircrafts' oil coolers, which in the Hastings are recessed in the wing leading edges. The Halifax IV was to have Lancaster power eggs with 60 series Merlins (two speed/two stage 'High Altitude') mounted lower on the wing, which would have boosted the type's performance considerably, but this model never entered production and the Halifax III powered by the Hercules offered an immediate solution and was put into production without altering the existing wing design. After three years of constant trouble, the Halifax III was what the aircraft should have been from the outset. The Hastings and Hermes wing incorporated some of the aerodynamic fixes that the Halifax wing did not have, like the lowered nacelles.
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