Re: opaqueing lenses for nukes

On Mar 28, 7:16 pm, "Andrew Chaplin"
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I certainly hope that Vince will take the time to read some of the accounts,
in which are the sort of details which expand those dry, baseline stats
copied into Wikipedia into "realtime" experience. Of course, one
shortcoming in the Wiki entry is its apparent applicability to the AD-1
model, although few series production a/c remained as little altered as did
the Spad, from prototype to the last AD-7/A1H.

Watching a sortie of half squadron of Spads deck launching after the jets
had been catted off was a grand sight, but an insult to the ears. With the
wind across the deck at a good clip, they would sort of lift on their oleos
as they passed the bridge and almost float off the bow.

Like nuclear age Stringbags?
--
Andrew Chaplin
SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO
(If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.)

LOL . . . I seem to remember that in "Skyraider, the Douglas A-1
"Flying Dump Truck" by Rosario Rausa, the author recalls taking and
sitting on a small inflatable doughnut-shaped cushion when he
practiced these missions. I think the training trips were called
"Sandblowers" and typical cruise speed with stores (including a shape)
were on the order of 180 kts and duration was around 12 hours.

Take care . . .

John

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