âThe American aviator, Charles Lindbergh (third from the left) watches as machine-gun calibration tests are carried out on a [Heinkel] He 51..during a visit he paid to Berlin-DĂśberitz during the summer of 1936..In 1938 he was to receive a decoration from Hitlerâ (www.amazon.co.uk/Jagdwaffe-Bi...)
(NOT the grumpy bearded one, or the cancelled bearded one)
I donât think there was an actual confirmed design/synergy connection, but the Tabor - as epic as it was - fared very poorly. I canât think of a bigger scale âthe centre of gravity was wrongâ case study at that timeâŚ
âyo! how YOU doinâ?! yâknow, the world is f*ckin weird right now, but you gotta hang in there. Kapish? badda-bing badda-boom!â
it is of course childish to poke fun at a word that has a valid historical origin - Wanke/Wankel engine, etc - but combined with âRomeoâ, itâs hard to resist
I would have designed a complex exhaust system, where they came out of those round âholesâ in the nose, like whiskers
men in hats ponder the very unconventional-for-the-time-looking Mercur CL.II WW1 fighter prototype. the thin rattish nose implies that the engine was set back in the fuselage Mercur-Flugzeugbau (owned by Romeo Wankmuller *looks to camera*) were one of the more obscure German companies of the time
âThis painting by Barry Walding depicts Avro Anson I L9164, piloted by Sgt Bruce Hancock, ramming Heinkel He 111 [WNr] 1408 over [RAF] Windrush on the night of August 18, 1940" Hancock was a trainee bomber pilot, possibly on his last solo flight. intentional or not, all perished
I re-read this and THE DEMOLISHED MAN every couple of years..