aircraft identification - How can I tell the difference between ...
Aug 19, 2016 · When both Hurricanes and Spitfires were a common sight over England's skies, there was a saying: greenhouse = Hurricane, blister = Spitfire. This refers to the cockpits. The Hurricane has a many-paned canopy whose top is flat and level with the top of the fuselage. The Spitfire has a curved canopy which sticks out from the top of the fuselage.
aircraft identification - Is this a Hurricane or Spitfire? - Aviation ...
Apr 29, 2018 · 2. It's a Hurricane. No Spitfire of any Mark had a radiator under the fuselage, whereas every Hurricane, from the prototype to the "Last of the Many" did. And that is NOT a carburetor (carburettor in British English) air inlet. Re the comment about the canopy, Mark I Spits had a narrow canopy. No framed greenhouse, but not blown out at the ...
aviation history - What is the meaning of the letters on the side (s ...
Mar 13, 2018 · ...Thus the famous Douglas Bader was allowed to have the letters "D-B" painted on the side of his Spitfire VA, because he commanded the Wing flying from Tangmere Aerodrome. Bob Stanford-Tuck, commander of the Biggin Hill Wing had a Spitfire with "RS-T" on it. source. Hurricanes followed the same standard
Has there ever been a tail-dragger with retractable tail-gear?
Nov 20, 2016 · Of the most-produced aircraft of the war, the only ones I've been able to confirm was only produced with a fixed tailwheel are the Hawker Hurricane, Avro Lancaster and Ilyushin Il-2. The He-111, B-17, P-51, P-47, Fw 190, Ju 88, Yak-3, and a large number of Bf 109 and Spitfires all were built with retractable tailwheels.
aircraft performance - Why was the WWII RAF fighter joy stick …
Mar 30, 2016 · If one is going to use both hands, yoke is arguably a more ergonomic design. That said, exceptions and mixed designs exist, such as central stick on the very heavy Tu-160, or the Tu-204 (or Concorde's) yoke which is not that fundamentally different from Spitfire. $\endgroup$ –
Incidents of V1 flying bombs being nudged instead of shot down
Mar 28, 2022 · Quotes from Osprey book "Meteor I vs V-1 Flying Bomb". [L]egendary British test pilot Capt Eric Brown described the performance of the [Meteor] Mk I as ‘pedestrian’. Compared with the high performance piston-engined fighters then in service with the RAF (the Tempest V and Spitfire XIV), the Meteor offered little in the way of superior ...
Why did some Spitfire variants have their wings clipped?
Apr 15, 2020 · 2. As Pierre Henri Clostermann says in his "Grand Cirque": Spitfire V: nickname:clipped,cropped,clapped. Clipped = tip of clipped wings. Advantage:increased speed and lateral maneuverability. wings reduced by about one meter. Disadvantages: this reduces the bearing surface and increases the marginal vortices. cropped.
Which aircraft is easier to land-- Supermarine Spitfire or North ...
Dec 10, 2021 · Points of interest-- note that the P-51's tailwheel is located well forward of the tail, giving the landing gear a "short-coupled" configuration. Note that the Spitfire main landing gear legs were located close together (giving a narrow "track").
Is it possible to modify an AV-8B Harrier II to make it supersonic?
Jul 25, 2021 · However, the P.1154 never saw the light of the day due to various reasons and the subsonic Hawker P.1127 was developed into the AV-8 Harrier. Later, Hawker and McDonnel Douglas joined to develop the AV-16 concept, basically a plan to double the range and payload of the Harrier. One version of the AV-16 called for supersonic flight too.
Why was the Spitfire's elliptical wing almost uncopied by other ...
Apr 26, 2019 · $\begingroup$ Corelli Barnett, in Audit of War, ruefully compares the 13,000 man-hours needed to make a Spitfire Mk V airframe with the 4,000 for an Me 109G. (The Spitfire also took two-and-a-half times as long to make as a Hurricane, …