This picture is of an American carrier borne aircraft. Please identify what the portion shown is. What aircraft is it? Answers in a couple days if you don't identify first.
Good Luck!
Just a little quiz
This picture is of an American carrier borne aircraft. Please identify what the portion shown is. What aircraft is it? Answers in a couple days if you don't identify first.
Good Luck!
Sort of looks like the hydraulic section of a dive flap (?).
If so maybe an Dauntlass ?
That looks like a sodding great .50 cal in the middle & a piston of sorts on the right and top left is what looks like the leading edge so I'd say that is where the wing folds up - I can only guess which plane it is, think it's possibly a fighter so I'll plump for a Corsair.
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Al... I must admit this one has me stumped...
Originally Posted by flash
I think you might just be right Flash old man!
Flash was right on the folding part of the wing, but it was a trick question really, as the aircraft in question was the AM-1 Mauler which while developed during ww2, didn't really get to the fleet in time and was just another leftover around for the next war. Not quite as good as the Skyraider (spad or sandy) but it perhaps tried to be too many things, and apparently never saw combat as the 151 produced were sent to the Atlantic fleet while the Skyraider was in the Pacific. By 1953 it was phased out as the pilots preferred the Skyraider, as did the mechanics.
Last edited by wargamer; 08-11-2013 at 06:19.
Flash was right on the folding part of the wing, but it was a trick question really, as the aircraft in question was the AM-1 Mauler which while developed during ww2, didn't really get to the fleet in time and was just another leftover around for the next war. Not quite as good as the Skyraider (spad or sandy) but it perhaps tried to be too many things, and apparently never saw combat as the 151 produced were sent to the Atlantic fleet while the Skyraider was in the Pacific. By 1953 it was phased out as the pilots preferred the Skyraider, as did the mechanics.
Oh very tricky, Al!
I'm not so sure about the Mauler being "the most-powerful single-engine aircraft ever produced":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodyear_F2G_Corsair
Only five built before the war ended, but still....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_AM_Mauler
The AM and F2G had the same engine, this is true (the R-4360-4); not sure why the F2G's page lists 25 extra HP (different tuning?).
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