Good flying fiction?

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Chris Wells wrote:

I recently visited the Niagara Aerospace Museum (thumbs up!) and got the
opportunity to see a P39 Airacobra close-up...and I noticed that the
elevator and ailerons (& possibly the rudder as well) were
fabric-covered, instead of aluminum like the rest of the plane. Is this
the way they were built?

Yup. The P-51 also had a fabric-covered rudder; early-model Corsairs had
a fair amount of fabric on the wings, too.

Orval Fairbairn writes:


I recently visited the Niagara Aerospace Museum (thumbs up!) and got the
opportunity to see a P39 Airacobra close-up...and I noticed that the
elevator and ailerons (& possibly the rudder as well) were
fabric-covered, instead of aluminum like the rest of the plane. Is this
the way they were built?

Yup. The P-51 also had a fabric-covered rudder; early-model Corsairs had
a fair amount of fabric on the wings, too.

Interesting. I seem to recall reading in Douglas Bader's book how
they jumped the queue to get the more effective aluminum rudder/ailerons
on their aircraft by flying to the factory for the instalation.

A year+ later, the bill arrived and he suggested past squadron
leaders as the ones to ask; one was dead, another a POW, etc..
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Yes... and quite a few bombers as well... B-17 comes to mind...

Terry

"Chris Wells" wrote in
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I recently visited the Niagara Aerospace Museum (thumbs up!) and got
the
opportunity to see a P39 Airacobra close-up...and I noticed that the
elevator and ailerons (& possibly the rudder as well) were
fabric-covered, instead of aluminum like the rest of the plane. Is
this
the way they were built?




--
Chris Wells

And the DC-3.

"Terry" wrote in message
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Yes... and quite a few bombers as well... B-17 comes to mind...

Terry

"Chris Wells" wrote in
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I recently visited the Niagara Aerospace Museum (thumbs up!) and got the
opportunity to see a P39 Airacobra close-up...and I noticed that the
elevator and ailerons (& possibly the rudder as well) were
fabric-covered, instead of aluminum like the rest of the plane. Is this
the way they were built?




--
Chris Wells





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Anything by Roy Dale Brown, but especially his first, The Flight Of The Old
Dog. Absolutely fantastic. Couldn't put it down.

Richard Marmo
http://scalepublications.freeyellow.com/avhisref4.html


"Al G" wrote in message
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"Chris Wells" wrote in
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I've been looking for some good flying stories. A friend recommended
"The Reluctant Messiah", which I've yet to find. Can someone recommend
more, preferably written by a pilot & for pilots?




--
Chris Wells

Not exactly fiction, "Fate is the Hunter", by Earnest K. Gann

Good read.

Al G

"Chris Wells" wrote in
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I've been looking for some good flying stories. A friend recommended
"The Reluctant Messiah", which I've yet to find. Can someone recommend
more, preferably written by a pilot & for pilots?

Great Flying Stories
by Frederick Forsyth

Definitely fits the bill, and the stories really are great.

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Dr. Julian Gomez ** http://www.polished-pixels.com

Take a look at these books, Great author if your nice he will personalize
(sign them) them for ya and give you a great deal $$$! These books are Very
entertaining for the independent non-institutionalized thinker's out there!
So if you don't mind a little foul language some grammar errors and really
good stories worth supporting a fellow pilot and author!

http://www.spikefly.com/crop.php

http://www.spikefly.com/ferry_pilot.php



"Chris Wells" wrote in message
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I've been looking for some good flying stories. A friend recommended
"The Reluctant Messiah", which I've yet to find. Can someone recommend
more, preferably written by a pilot & for pilots?




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Chris Wells

On Jan 30, 5:47 am, "NW_Pilot"
wrote:
Take a look at these books, Great author if your nice he will personalize
(sign them) them for ya and give you a great deal $$$! These books are Very
entertaining for the independent non-institutionalized thinker's out there!
So if you don't mind a little foul language some grammar errors and really
good stories worth supporting a fellow pilot and author!

http://www.spikefly.com/crop.php

http://www.spikefly.com/ferry_pilot.php

"Chris Wells" wrote in message

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I've been looking for some good flying stories. A friend recommended
"The Reluctant Messiah", which I've yet to find. Can someone recommend
more, preferably written by a pilot & for pilots?

--
Chris Wells

I have a web page with a list of aviation books I've read:

http://www.netlabs.net/~richieb/books.html

I haven't updated it in a while, but you may find it helpful

.....richie