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Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
As usual you are wrong. The Brits had the Sopwith triplane. Snoopy was a Brit? Doesn't Snoopy fly a Camel? Yes. Sopwith made more than one model aircraft, just like Fokker did. -- Mortimer Schnerd, RN http://www.mortimerschnerd.com |
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Dale wrote:
Everts Air is still flying C-46s in Alaska hauling fuel/cargo. Yes! I found some pics of them at Fairbanks last night. Looks like Everts have two or 3 of them and all in good nick. http://www.airliners.net/open.file/636071/L/ Very pretty plane. (Some amazing pics of all sorts of things on airliners.net too - easily while away hours on the search button...) Dave. |
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Would you like your very own C46? I just remembered when Miami built
the Dolphin Expressway, which runs parallel to and just south of MIA 9Right, there was a C46 parked south of the right-of-way on airport property. The owner was warned but never got around to moving it and the Expressway effectively imprisoned the '46. It was still there around 1980, walled in by apartment buildings, borrow pits, and the expressway. I suppose all the goodies have been stripped from it. FWIW the history of the C46 was sort of a precursor of the C82 and C119. Air Force loaded it too high, just as they did with the 82/119, and when an engine failed a lot of times the bird went in. The CAA/FAA had a whole chapter on operating the C46 specifying loadings a good deal under those used by the military in WW2. I knew a pilot who ferried one from Burma to Karachi - single-handed. He said the only snag was fuel management - he had to trim it real good and then get up, go back, and switch tanks. He was a champ ping-pong player; guess the celerity came in handy on that trip. Walt BJ |
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FWIW the Brits had a quadraplane and the Italians had a nonaplane
(enneaplane?). Neither were any good; the 9-plane crashed on its first takeoff. Supermarine made the 4; Caproni the 9. The worst ever built was the monoplane Christmas Bullet; they made two; on the first flight of both they became 0-planes. the sad part was they were made and flown sequentially. Why the second pilot ever tried to fly the second bird is beyond me. The wings were flexible and could be pushed up and pulled down by hand! Walt BJ |
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Would you like your very own C46?...... It was still there
around 1980, walled in by apartment buildings, borrow pits, and the expressway. I neglected to mention that one is now parked at the Curtiss Museum in Hammondsport, New York. Might be that one. It was trucked in in pieces, I'm told. vince norris |
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"vincent p. norris" wrote in message ... I neglected to mention that one is now parked at the Curtiss Museum in Hammondsport, New York. Might be that one. It was trucked in in pieces, I'm told. vince norris Maybe indirectly, perhaps. The one at the Curtis Museum was moved there from Wings of Eagles Museum, Elmira. Tex |
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I've seen little reference to them in Europe.
They were used in Operation Varsity, the crossing of the Rhine, earning a mixed reputation for survivability in the ETO threat environment. The gist of it is that they were supposed to catch fire too easily, and in a uniquely engulfing way, when hit. Some claim this is more anecdotal than statistical (i.e., did that formation just happen to encounter particularly intense and effective ground fire?). Fortunately the defeat of Germany was not far away by then. See for instance http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/a...Jun/boston.htm as well as http://www.brooks.af.mil/HSW/HO/ww2plane.html and page 404 and footnote 8 on page 407 of http://www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil...reen_light.pdf [modem users should note that this document takes a while to download] Compare http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/a...Jun/boston.htm Certainly it suffered by comparison to the C-47's reputation as a tough and dependable aircraft, even though, as far as I know, that revered plane didn't have self-sealing fuel tanks either (they were experimented with, but I don't know whether that ever come to fruition operationally). Finally, here is a link to an interesting story by someone who flew the C-46 (not during WW2) under different circumstances at a couple of points in his life: http://www.avweb.com/news/columns/182136-1.html Note that I speak without firsthand experience or deep research knowledge in the above matters -- just some pointers to what others have written. Cheers, --Joe |
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Ad absurdum per aspera wrote:
Finally, here is a link to an interesting story by someone who flew the C-46 (not during WW2) under different circumstances at a couple of points in his life: http://www.avweb.com/news/columns/182136-1.html Fantastic link! Thanks for posting it. -- Mortimer Schnerd, RN http://www.mortimerschnerd.com |
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