6 minutes ago, Chock said:

If you wanna be picky,

Always my friend....that is what keeps most of the fun posts in these forums going! 🙂

 

1 hour ago, airlinejets said:

At the 12 second mark, the young lady pronounces it correctly in French.

Sigh...French...its all Greek to me. 🤣   Would love to learn though....Very deep in my bucket list

All I remember is the TB is the location for manufacturing and the M for Mooney.

On the subject of which, even though we do have plenty of GAs, let's hope Just Flight get their Trinidad and Tobago into the new sim too, because they are very cool.

The French always seem to know how to make beautiful and innovative aeroplanes. Even the Germans copied them in WW1, notably when they made the Albatros D.V, which was directly-inspired by the Nieuport 11 'Bebe'. The 11 being amongst the prettiest of WW1 fighter aeroplanes, as well as being the one which is most notable for ending the 'Fokker Scourge'. Which brings up an interesting diversion about the copying of designs of other aeroplanes and how it's not always a good idea...

German pilots were impressed with the French Nieuport 11's maneuverability and their reports made it back to their HQ, resulting in a directive to Germany and Austria's aeroplane manufacturers to try copying the Nieuport 11's maneuvering characteristics, which they put down to its sesquiplane configuration, which is a wing layout where the lower wing is considerably smaller than the upper wing.

Unfortunately, in copying the Bebe's V-strut design, German aeroplane designers also inherited a structural design flaw - one which had plagued the Nieuport 11 - when they copied the sesquiplane layout for their new Albatros D.III. In its preceding D.II variant, the Albatros had incorporated a normal biplane wing which featured the more inherently rigid twin inter-wing struts.

In changing the design to a sesquiplane, the D.III's designers were hoping to have the speed advantage of the Albatros, as well as the desirable characteristics of the Bebe. But instead, they ran into the same trouble the French designers had encountered.

At the time, the reason for the V-strut design flaw wasn't very well understood by aerodynamicists, it being aero-elastic flutter on the lower wing, causing the wing to pivot back and forth around the lower attachment point of the V-strut when at high speed since it was only attached at one point and that attachment point was not located where it would resist flutter. This would weaken the joint and eventually cause the lower wing to detach, usually with fatal results although one or two pilots did manage to survive these incidents and were therefore able to report the phenomenon. As a result, German designers added a little strut extension to the bottom of the V-strut to make it more rigid on the later Albatros D.Va, and also retro-modified the preceding D.V variant. This didn't completely solve the problem, but it did alleviate it quite a lot.

You can (just) see the small additional wing bracing which has been added in front of the bottom of the V-strut and another bracing strut toward the rear of the wing where it joins the body on this modified Albatros D.V:

It's all this stuff which makes aeroplanes and their designs fun to learn about and it's interesting to note that in the (simulated) aviation world, it's once again the French, at Asobo, who are innovating stuff. Let's just hope that when Aerosoft's Germans follow them, the wings don't fall off!

Edited September 29, 20205 yr by Chock

1 hour ago, Chock said:

 

The French always seem to know how to make beautiful and innovative aeroplanes.

By all accounts the RAAF in Australia was extremely happy with the Dassualt Mirage III fighters which it flew from 1960 to 1988.  They had big shoes to fill as they were a replacement for an Aussie made Sabre variant that  had been modified to take a RR Avon Ra7 with double the thrust of the US variant, and then to top it off, in typical Aussie fashion, were fitted with a pair of MK4 Aden revolving 30mm cannon instead of the original .50 cal of the US Saber.

The Aussie Dassault Mirages were sold to Pakistan in 1988 and I believe some may actually still be in service nearly 60 years later.

I'm trying to think of a clever way to shift this thread over to the handsome Brewster Buffalo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Da-air

a as in father 

h is always mute in French

 

Here their story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOCATA

 

4 hours ago, Fielder said:

I'm trying to think of a clever way to shift this thread over to the handsome Brewster Buffalo.

Posting a photo of one straight after a photo of Mirage III's is not the best way to go about it I think.  You have set yourself a difficult challenge!

The Buffalo! So long and slim and svelte. What a figure. Sexy.

6 minutes ago, Fielder said:

The Buffalo! So long and slim and svelte. What a figure. Sexy.

The flying potato!