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LostCosmonaut

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On 5/19/2018 at 2:58 AM, LostCosmonaut said:

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I hadn't thought of the weight savings in the structure with an evenly distributed load across the wings (avoiding the reinforcing to take the massive moment at the wing root). Other takeaways:

- This was meant to crab sideways into a long thin hangar

- post-war defence budgets must have been very tight with the number of times that they mention "efficiency"

- The fins on top weren't connected as rudders - the rudder was achieved with differential airbrakes in the wingtips. This meant that both rudder pedals were separate, and if you pressed both pedals then you got an airbrake

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3 hours ago, Jeeps_Guns_Tanks said:

 

What a weird image! That's an early P-38, and E, F or G probably, I wonder where they are taking, and when was the DUCK invented, 44?

The context I got for the image was that the DUKWs were being tested here in a possible ferry role for moving aircraft ashore in the absence of docks or ports.  Some more pics:

 

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