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Boeing B-17 & P-51 Mustangs – Duxford Airshow Oct 2010
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Boeing B-17 + P51 Mustangs at Duxford Airshow October 2010.
The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was a four-engine heavy bomber aircraft created in the 1930s for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). Competing against Douglas and Martin for a contract to develop 200 bombers, the Boeing entry outperformed each competitors and far more than met the Air Corps’ expectations. Despite the fact that Boeing lost the contract because the prototype crashed, the Air Corps was so impressed with Boeing’s style that they ordered 13 much more B-17s for additional evaluation. From its introduction in 1938, the B-17 Flying Fortress evolved through several style advances.
The B-17 was mainly employed by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) in the daylight precision strategic bombing campaign of World War II against German industrial and military targets. The United States Eighth Air Force primarily based at Thorpe Abbotts airfield in England and the Fifteenth Air Force based in Italy complemented the RAF Bomber Command’s nighttime area bombing in Operation Pointblank to support safe air superiority more than the cities, factories and battlefields of Western Europe in preparation for Operation Overlord. The B-17 also participated to a lesser extent in the War in the Pacific where it performed raids against Japanese shipping and airfields.
From its pre-war inception, the USAAC (later USAAF) touted the aircraft as a strategic weapon it was a potent, higher-flying, long-range bomber that was capable to defend itself, and to return residence despite extensive battle harm. It rapidly took on mythic proportions, and extensively circulated stories and photos of B-17s surviving battle damage enhanced its iconic status. With a service ceiling higher than any of its Allied contemporaries, the B-17 established itself as an effective weapons program, dropping more bombs than any other U.S. aircraft in Planet War II. Of the 1.five million metric tons of bombs dropped on Germany by U.S. aircraft, 640,000 tons were dropped from B-17s.
Registrations:
•B17: Memphis Belle, 124485, 44-83546, N3703G, 23060/LN-T
•Mustang 1: Miss Velma, N251RJ, NX251RJ, 44-84847
•Mustang 2: Ferocious Frankie, 413704, G-BTCD
•Mustang three: Large Beautiful Doll, G-HAEC
General qualities
•Crew: ten: Pilot, co-pilot, navigator, bombardier/nose gunner, flight engineer-best turret gunner, radio operator, waist gunners (2), ball turret gunner, tail gunner
•Length: 74 ft 4 in (22.66 m)
•Wingspan: 103 ft 9 in (31.62 m)
•Height: 19 ft 1 in (five.82 m)
•Wing region: 1,420 sq ft (131.92 m2)
•Airfoil: NACA 0018 / NACA 0010
•Aspect ratio: 7.57
•Empty weight: 36,135 lb (16,391 kg)
•Loaded weight: 54,000 lb (24,500 kg)
•Max takeoff weight: 65,500 lb (29,700 kg)
•Powerplant: 4× Wright R-1820-97 Cyclone turbo supercharged radial engines, 1,200 hp (895 kW) every
Overall performance
•Maximum speed: 287 mph (249 kn, 462 km/h)
•Cruise speed: 182 mph (158 kn, 293 km/h)
•Range: 2,000 mi (1,738 nmi, three,219 km) with 2,700 kg (6,000 lb) bombload
•Service ceiling: 35,600 ft (ten,850 m)
•Rate of climb: 900 ft/min (4.6 m/s)
•Wing loading: 38. lb/sq ft (185.7 kg/m2)
•Power/mass: .089 hp/lb (150 W/kg)
Armament
•Guns: 13 × 50 in (12.7 mm) M2 Browning machine guns in 4 turrets in dorsal, ventral, nose and tail, 2 in waist positions, two beside cockpit and 1 in the reduce dorsal position
•Bombs:
•Short range missions (<400 mi): eight,000 lb (three,600 kg)
•Long range missions (≈800 mi): 4,500 lb (2,000 kg)
•Overload: 17,600 lb (7,800 kg)
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P-51 Mustang
The North American Aviation P-51 Mustang was an American extended-range single-seat Globe War II fighter aircraft. Developed and built in just 117 days, the Mustang 1st flew in Royal Air Force (RAF) service as a fighter-bomber and reconnaissance aircraft just before conversion to a bomber escort, employed in raids over Germany, assisting make certain Allied air superiority from early 1944. The P-51 was in service with Allied air forces in Europe and also saw restricted service against the Japanese in the Pacific War. The Mustang began the Korean War as the United Nations’ principal fighter, but was relegated to a ground attack function when superseded by jet fighters early in the conflict. Nevertheless, it remained in service with some air forces till the early 1980s.
Basic qualities
•Crew: 1
•Length: 32 ft three in (9.83 m)
•Wingspan: 37 ft in (11.28 m)
•Height: 13 ft 4½ in (4.08 m:tail wheel on ground, vertical propeller blade.)
•Wing area: 235 ft² (21.83 m²)
•Empty weight: 7,635 lb (three,465 kg)
•Loaded weight: 9,200 lb (four,175 kg)
•Max takeoff weight: 12,one hundred lb (5,490 kg)
•Powerplant: 1× Packard V-1650-7 liquid-cooled supercharged V-12, 1,490 hp (1,111 kW) at three,000 rpm 1,720 hp (1,282 kW) at WEP
•Zero-lift drag coefficient: .0163
•Drag area: 3.80 ft² (.35 m²)
•Aspect ratio: five.83
Performance
•Maximum speed: 437 mph (703 km/h) at 25,000 ft (7,600 m)
•Cruise speed: 362 mph (580 km/h)
•Stall speed: one hundred mph (160 km/h)
•Range: 1,650 mi (two,755 km) with external tanks
•Service ceiling: 41,900 ft (12,800 m)
•Rate of climb: three,200 ft/min (16.three m/s)
•Wing loading: 39 lb/ft² (192 kg/m²)
•Power/mass: .18 hp/lb (300 W/kg)
•Lift-to-drag ratio: 14.6
•Recommended Mach limit .eight
Armament
•6× .50 caliber (12.7mm) M2 Browning machine guns with 1,880 total rounds (400 rounds for every single on the inner pair, and 270 rounds for each and every of the outer two pair)
•2× hardpoints for up to 2,000 lb (907 kg) of bombs
•6 or 10× T64 5. in (127 mm) H.V.A.R rockets (P-51D-25, P-51K-10 on)
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