"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
03/17/2018 at 17:00 • Filed to: Vought V-173, Planelopnik
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"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
03/17/2018 at 17:00 • Filed to: Vought V-173, Planelopnik | 6
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Time for....no, not funny green hats and all that.
Time for a, or rather the, Vought v-173, or Flying Pancake to its friends.
It was intended as a small prototype for a short take off aircraft. Two 80 bhp engines buried in the wing provided the power while the gearboxes attached thereto provided the vibration which initially plagued the plane. Just the one was built and managed 190 flights before being retired in 1947. The full size development, the Vought XF5U, was not proceeded with as jet engines had arrived.
Before you ask, the pilot entered and exited via a door on the underside.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> Cé hé sin
03/17/2018 at 17:53 |
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also 173, a 173 cubic inch Holden red motor.
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Cé hé sin
> pip bip - choose Corrour
03/17/2018 at 17:56 |
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Away with your foreign “cubic inches”!
Ash78, voting early and often
> Cé hé sin
03/17/2018 at 20:12 |
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FWIW, most Americans under the age of 50 are not conversant in cubic inches. I assume the same for Oz.
OTOH, you guys in the UK and Ireland tend to talk about (imperial) gallons, miles, and millimeters in the same conversation. Impressive and confusing.