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[_AH_Autorotate]

oh the good old days....
those twin 51's, it was all about the range. ment to escort the B-29's over japan if Nagasaki and Hiroshima didn't work.  :cool:

"On 27 February 1947, P-82B 44-65168, named Betty Jo and flown by Colonel Robert E. Thacker, made history when it flew nonstop from Hawaii to New York without refueling, a distance of 5,051 mi (8,129 km) in 14 hr 32 min. It averaged 347.5 miles per hour (559.2 km/h). This flight tested the P-82's range. The aircraft carried a full internal fuel tank of 576 US gallons (2,180 l; 480 imp gal), augmented by four 310 US gal (1,173 l; 258 imp gal) tanks for a total of 1,816 US gal (6,874 l; 1,512 imp gal). Also, Colonel Thacker forgot to drop three of his external tanks when their fuel was expended, landing with them in New York. To this day, it remains the longest nonstop flight ever made by a propeller-driven fighter, and the fastest such a distance has ever been covered in a piston-engined aircraft."

here he is in betty jo taking off from hickam in hawaii.

[_AH_Col._Hogan]

Man, I wish that guy on my left would stop flying so close to me...

[_AH_Autorotate]

looks familiar to us.

rough landing at dekalb-peachtree airport near atlanta.
pilot is okay and they say the plane is fixable.

[_AH_Col._Hogan]

Jack's childhood?

[_AH_Autorotate]

farewell... ~S~

[_AH_Col._Hogan]

Found this in a 2008 post.

There are many skinners in this squad Hogan, no one can be the official skinner. Besides, I have my sights set on far more lofty positions of power. I'll TOTALLY be the new squadron XO as soon as BBQ gets a load of this :



Oh yeah, I can FEEL the power already....

DW


We should start doing this in the squad head.

[_AH_Lippy]

LMAOROF

:lol

[_AH_Autorotate]

more flying tigers



the even ended up adding the teeth!

[_AH_Lippy]

That P-40 looks like a toy plane compared to the 747.

[_AH_Lippy]

Anyone curious about Submarines this is a pretty good site
http://www.rickcampbellauthor.com/styled/index.html

[_AH_Jack]

cool site, Lippy.

[_AH_Autorotate]

never heard of these until today... yehudi lights.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehudi_lights

Today's experiments with visual stealth have their roots in a 1943 U.S. Navy project code-named Yehudi. The intent of the program, which was highly secret at the time and came to light only in the1980s, was to give Navy patrol aircraft a better chance of sinking enemy submarines. During 1942, German U-boats took a heavy toll on merchant marine shipping off the East Coast of the United States. Aircraft scrambled to attack the U-boats, but submarine captains called for crash dives whenever they spotted approaching planes. By the time an aircraft got close enough to fire upon a sub, it had disappeared beneath the surface of the ocean.

Yehudi's inventors needed a way to make the antisubmarine aircraft harder to see, and they realized that camouflage paint wouldn't do the job: Regardless of its color, the airplane would stand out as a black dot against the sky. The only way to make the plane less visible was to light it up like a Christmas tree.

The engineers fitted a portly TBM-3D Avenger torpedo-bomber with 10 sealed-beam lights installed along the wing's leading edges and the rim of the engine cowling. When the intensity of the lights was adjusted to match the sky, the Avenger blended into the background. Tests proved that the Yehudi system lowered the visual acquisition range from 12 miles to two miles, allowing the Avenger to get within striking distance of its targets before they submerged. A B-24 Liberator bomber was also modified, with similar results.

Yehudi was not put into production, because better radar had already enabled Navy airplanes to regain the tactical advantage, but the idea was revived after air battles over Vietnam. Concerned that the big F-4 Phantom could be seen at a greater range than its much smaller Russian adversary, the MiG-21, the Pentagon started a program called Compass Ghost. An F-4 was modified with a blue-and-white color scheme and nine high-intensity lamps on the wings and body. reducing the detection range by as much as 30 percent.

[_AH_DarkWolf]

Huh, makes sense. I wonder how many lights they needed for the liberator!

DW

[_AH_Turbo]

[_AH_Autorotate]

Huh, makes sense. I wonder how many lights they needed for the liberator!

DW

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they even had them on f-4's over vietnam.