... "that's the shot"......Originally Posted by Chooky
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... "that's the shot"......Price cutter.........
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and the spitfire had to be side slippped slightly as you coudnt see over the bloody great engine in front of you...prolly not peculiar to the spitfire though
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Buy a brand new 80% of full size replica here; http://www.supermarineaircraft.com/
$AU175k, Isuzu Bighorn V6 motor
Absolute bargain.
There is one on my Lotto list
it's not a bad thing till you throw a KLR into the mix.
those cheap ass bitches can do anything with ductape.
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A Diesel Spitfire.
Junkers get the last laugh.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
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Isuzu V6 petrol, with optional supercharger. Not diesel.
Junkers was an opposed piston engine, like the Rootes TS3 Commer, right?
it's not a bad thing till you throw a KLR into the mix.
those cheap ass bitches can do anything with ductape.
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The Junkers Ju-86 had the diesels,...opposed piston two-strokes.
Good for high altitude but too slow and mainly were easy pickings for the RAF fighters.
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Yeah I know, I was using poetic license.
Yes, 6 cylinder 12 piston two stroke supercharged diesel with a service ceiling of 14,000 metres for the final version, the Ju86R. Really clever port work and an "H" configuration (something that Napier and BRM struggled to make work) gave it good scavenging performance and minimised power loss at the crank giving the Ju86 amazing high altitude performance for an engine of comparably low specific output (1000HP), especially compared to a Merlin 60 with a Two stage, Two speed supercharger like the Mk VII Spitfire had, an aircraft specifically developed to counter the high flying reconnaissance Ju86.
It took until 1942 for a Ju86P to be shot down by a specially modified Spitfire Mk V operating from Aboukir in Egypt. The Ju86R wasn't withdrawn from service until 1944. Not a bad record for an obsolescent Spanish Civil war era bomber. The Ju86 helped develop pressurised cabins for passenger aircraft, so we can fly high and fast all over the place now.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
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....we refer to altitude in feet, Mr Deuce......
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You refer to them in feet because you need the lower unit measurment granularity skimming the Earth's surface the way you do.
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No, not at all, the RAF and USAF struggled to get anywhere near them, and they were withdrawn from service primarliy due to fuel supply issues. Diesel became much more dificult to get hold of from 1944 on for the Germans. The Jumo 207 maintained a much higher power to weight ratio thanks to the two stroke firing order and the port layout of intake in the lower cylinder and exhaust in the upper meant really good combustion efficiency, even in a low oxygen atmosphere. A Ju86 would walk away from a Spit VII at 40,000ft (happy Pussy?) an aircraft with supposedly almost double the top speed of the Ju86 at it's most efficient altitude of 32,000ft. The performance drop off in the entailing 8,000ft altitude difference meant the high flying interceptors needed a long winded vectoring process organised on the ground to line a Ju86 up and then they generally got one crack at it before it dieseled on its way.
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Yes, thank you! (feet is the international unit of measuring altitude!)
Man, there were some clever bastards back then! I'm no authority on aircraft, but I had NO idea about the Jumo 207 engine. Interesting!!
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To step back from the aerogeekery for a moment, I gotta say, it'd be pretty embarrassing to be this dude.
Imagine if everyone with more money than sense had the national media sniffing around like flies every time they binned one of their toys.
Sales of Enzos and Desmosedicis would go straight through the floor.
kiwibiker is full of love, an disrespect.
- mikey
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Speaking of which (to get off the subject a little)..there's a youtube vid of a dude riding his Desmosedici extremely poorly, proving that money does not buy skill.
However, please be aware that I by no means refer to the Spitfire accident in that frame of mind.
Now, Ju-86,..yes agree Jim,...but they were no good at low/mid altitude because the diesels did not like changes in power, preferring constant revs.
Therefore were phased into high-altitude PR work where they excelled (as you mentioned).
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Wearing Hi-Viz Black.
I'm listening...!
The undercarriage was fixed to the fuselage so that a wing could be removed and yet the aircraft remain on its own wheels. Bad mistake really...
The problem is that the toyota corolla comparison could be made here...You don't see GSXR1000's appreciate like that when they get binned!
Hmmm...
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Just got from an undisclosed source that the damage done is more severe than before and will cost around $1M to rebuild. She'll take 12 months to get back in the air.
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