Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
|
Metalworking (rec.crafts.metalworking) Discuss various aspects of working with metal, such as machining, welding, metal joining, screwing, casting, hardening/tempering, blacksmithing/forging, spinning and hammer work, sheet metal work. |
Reply |
|
LinkBack | Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
Posted to rec.crafts.metalworking
|
|||
|
|||
Willow run and the B-24
http://www.youtube.com/embed/iKlt6rNciTo?rel=0
-- "You guess the truth hurts? Really? "Hurt" aint the word. For Liberals, the truth is like salt to a slug. Sunlight to a vampire. Raid® to a cockroach. Sheriff Brody to a shark Bush to a Liberal The truth doesn't just hurt. It's painful, like a red hot poker shoved up their ass. Like sliding down a hundred foot razor blade using their dick as a brake. They HATE the truth." |
#2
Posted to rec.crafts.metalworking
|
|||
|
|||
Willow run and the B-24
On Thu, 06 Jun 2013 23:30:51 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote: http://www.youtube.com/embed/iKlt6rNciTo?rel=0 Fun Ford Fillums! My dad flew a Mitchell B-25 in WWII. After a few other missions, he was shot down over France and taken to a German POW camp. The French thought he was a German spy and sapped him savagely twice, but no neck or brain damage resulted. His liberators were the Russians in T-34 tanks. He lost over 70 pounds in those ten months of captivity, but regained it and lived to the ripe old age of 86. -- I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned, but it is not greed to want take someone else's money. --Thomas Sowell |
#3
Posted to rec.crafts.metalworking
|
|||
|
|||
Willow run and the B-24
Gunner Asch wrote: http://www.youtube.com/embed/iKlt6rNciTo?rel=0 20 years ago a former mechanic posted (on the BBS network) that, of the B-17 and B-24, one was all electric and one was all hydraulic. Apparently the 17 was the electric one, but did that extend to the control surfaces I wonder? -- Reply in group, but if emailing remove the last word. |
#4
Posted to rec.crafts.metalworking
|
|||
|
|||
Willow run and the B-24
"Tom Del Rosso" wrote in message
... Gunner Asch wrote: http://www.youtube.com/embed/iKlt6rNciTo?rel=0 20 years ago a former mechanic posted (on the BBS network) that, of the B-17 and B-24, one was all electric and one was all hydraulic. Apparently the 17 was the electric one, but did that extend to the control surfaces I wonder? This says no. http://www.generalaviationnews.com/2...-people-thing/ I've poked around that aircraft as far as they let me, and seen the inside of an engine but not the wing. In the preflight checklist training film (just watched it again) the control check precedes engine start. They move the controls to the limit and look out the cockpit window to confirm the ailerons, elevators and rudder moved in the proper direction, without first flipping any switches. jsw |
#5
Posted to rec.crafts.metalworking
|
|||
|
|||
Willow run and the B-24
"Jim Wilkins" wrote in message
... "Tom Del Rosso" wrote in message ... I've poked around that aircraft as far as they let me, and seen the inside of an engine but not the wing. In the preflight checklist training film (just watched it again) the control check precedes engine start. They move the controls to the limit and look out the cockpit window to confirm the ailerons, elevators and rudder moved in the proper direction, without first flipping any switches. jsw http://www.galbreath.net/bill/images/cklist1s.gif |
#6
Posted to rec.crafts.metalworking
|
|||
|
|||
Willow run and the B-24
Jim Wilkins wrote: "Tom Del Rosso" wrote in message ... Gunner Asch wrote: http://www.youtube.com/embed/iKlt6rNciTo?rel=0 20 years ago a former mechanic posted (on the BBS network) that, of the B-17 and B-24, one was all electric and one was all hydraulic. Apparently the 17 was the electric one, but did that extend to the control surfaces I wonder? This says no. http://www.generalaviationnews.com/2...-people-thing/ I've poked around that aircraft as far as they let me, and seen the inside of an engine but not the wing. In the preflight checklist training film (just watched it again) the control check precedes engine start. They move the controls to the limit and look out the cockpit window to confirm the ailerons, elevators and rudder moved in the proper direction, without first flipping any switches. jsw Then I assume the B-24 had hydraulics for control surfaces, or at least ailerons. The video says the bomb bay doors were hydraulic, so the B-17 had electric doors (I'm sure that mechanic said they differed on the doors). -- Reply in group, but if emailing remove the last word. |
#7
Posted to rec.crafts.metalworking
|
|||
|
|||
Willow run and the B-24
On Sat, 8 Jun 2013 13:17:54 -0400, "Tom Del Rosso"
wrote: Gunner Asch wrote: http://www.youtube.com/embed/iKlt6rNciTo?rel=0 20 years ago a former mechanic posted (on the BBS network) that, of the B-17 and B-24, one was all electric and one was all hydraulic. Apparently the 17 was the electric one, but did that extend to the control surfaces I wonder? I believe that the Boeing B-50 was the first bomber that had any power assisted control surfaces (excepting flaps) and that was a power assist on the rudder only. -- Cheers, John B. |
#8
Posted to rec.crafts.metalworking
|
|||
|
|||
Willow run and the B-24
"Tom Del Rosso" wrote in message
... Then I assume the B-24 had hydraulics for control surfaces, or at least ailerons. The video says the bomb bay doors were hydraulic, so the B-17 had electric doors (I'm sure that mechanic said they differed on the doors). My B-17 & B-24 photo collection doesn't show the bomb bay door actuators for either, just some linkage. A B-17's simple doors swing down, a B-24's complex doors slide up the outside. jsw |
Reply |
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Forum | |||
Willow Wood | Woodturning | |||
turning Willow | Woodturning | |||
Willow | Woodturning | |||
Willow | Woodturning | |||
Splitting willow | Woodworking |