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[Verhängnis]

It looks almost identical to the me163.

It basically is, Germany and Japan had a technological collaboration agreement and a lot of technology was sent via submarines, and then Japanese engineers usually adapted the german designs to suit Japanese scientific, engineering and industrial capabilities.

Of which:

https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,17049.0.html

[max_thehitman]

Todays cool banner is.... a Spitfire ! 

Don´t ask me which model-make, there´s 1000 of them, but if YOU can find out
which make or model it is,
you will WIN a delicious Lemon Pie with lots of creamy topping!!
http://chefmary.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/lemon-meringue-pie-1024x768.jpg

[poy]

[Phas3e]

AA963 was built as a MkVc

[max_thehitman]

Ladies and Gentleman...That is correct! (APPLAUSE)

Phas3e has given the right answer (APPLAUSE)
 he has won the Delicious Lemon Pie!! 

Thanks also to Mister Poy for posting that big image for us (APPLAUSE)
 I have seen it somewhere before in the last swimsuit issue of Playboy(of-the-skies) 

Here is something interesting about this particular aircraft from todays SAS-banner,
Spitfire Mk Vc (serial number AA963) rolled off the production line at the Supermarine factory at Eastleigh in Southern England on November 8, 1941. (APPLAUSE)
It was test flown later that day. This Spitfire was then christened “Borough of Southgate” as it was presented to the RAF and bought from funds raised by the citizens of the London Borough of Southgate, a working class suburb of North East London, which had suffered badly at the hands of the Luftwaffe during the 1940/41 Blitz. The fact that the people of Southgate had managed to raise the money to buy ‘their’ Spitfire was remarkable as this was a predominantly very poor area, and it was testimony to their spirit and determination to get back at Goering’s air force that they succeeded in just a few months.

This Spitfire was technically quite unique, as it was one of the very first Mark V’s to carry the ‘C’ wing armament option which dispensed with Browning machine guns and carried a total of four x 20mm Hispano cannon instead. (This 4 x cannon option quickly proved to be unsuccessful in combat and later aircraft were usually armed with a mixture of cannon and mg’s).
However , Number AA963 never had an opportunity to prove her worth in combat as she was crated up in mid-December 1941 and sent to the port of Liverpool to wait for a ship to the United States.
The reason for this was that after the events of 7 December 1941 (Pearl Harbor attack), a request was made by President Roosevelt to Winston Churchill for "one of the latest Spitfires" to tour the USA and assist in fund raising for the War Bond Drive! (APPLAUSE)

Spitfire Nº AA963 arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia on 10 March 1941 and was shipped on to Wright Field for assembly and evaluation. After being briefly displayed at Chicago Municipal Airport in April 1942 she then joined a US War Bonds promotional tour called the ‘Cavalcade of the Air’  , which commenced with a flypast over New York on 13 June 1942 in the company of a British Beaufighter, P39 Aircobra, P40 and a captured Messerschmitt bf109E (RAF serial AE479. This bf109 aircraft was flown all over the US before being pranged by a US Navy pilot in November 1942, ultimately being rescued post-war from a Canadian junk yard then transported back to the UK where it is currently on display at Duxford museum). The ‘Cavalcade’ tour covered many US cities over a period of 3 months, including St Louis, Washington and Kansas City! (APPLAUSE)

Sometime in mid-1943, she was being used as a non-flying instructional airframe for fighter aircraft mechanics under training. At this time there were US fighter squadrons using Spitfire Mk V’s in the European Theatre of Operations under the ‘Reverse Lease Lend’ scheme and it is logical that a Spitfire Mk V airframe would come in handy for mechanics to train on before an overseas tour of duty. She was
also repainted entirely in the US standard camouflage scheme of Ugly Olive Drab over Neutral Grey and random Green splotches!  ???
What happened after this time period is anybody’s guess... the trail of this spitfire has been lost in time.

More cool photos here - http://spitfiresite.com/2009/03/aa963-in-the-united-states-colour-photos.html

[SAS~Storebror]

This 4 x cannon option quickly proved to be unsuccessful in combat and later aircraft were usually armed with a mixture of cannon and mg’s

Maybe it's worth a note about why the four cannon armament wasn't as effective as it should have been theoretically.
Among lots of other facts, the basic issue was that the hispano cannons, which were introduced in mass production with the Spit V series (there have been a handful modified earlier versions before) proved to be hyper-sensitive especially to freezing at high altitudes.
This issue has been observed with the cal .30 brownings before but not to the same extent.
Back in the time of 8 browning armament a simple modification, by which hot air from the radiator was ducted into the wing cavity and then vented through an exit port on the underside of the outer wings, solved the issues successfully.
Now that the hispanos were much more sensitive to freezing, this system had to be supplemented by a second, heavier-duty heating system. Air was now heated at the exhaust manifold and thence ducted outboard through the wings to the cannons via a system of aluminium piping. This was known as Modification 314, applied part way through the Mark V production run (see 22.1.43 signal RAAF London to RAAF HQ - NAA A705: 9/53/23).
There have been ongoing further modifications to this system for the Mark V Spits, but none of these could eventually solve the freezing issues.
This led to the hispano cannons being unreliable on the Mk.V, particularly for the outboard cannon in case of 4-cannon-armament the gun heating capacity proved inadequate.

That's why pilots refused to carry 4 cannons. They liked to have brownings on their Mk.V spits at least as fallback in case the hispanos froze again.

For the Merlin 61 engined Mark VIII and IX aircraft which succeeded the Mark V in RAF and RAAF service, the gun heating problem was resolved by the use of a new system that ducted hot air from the radiators out to the gun breaches (see NAA A11093: 452/A58 PART 1; & 16.12.42 signal from RAAF London in NAA A705: 9/53/23).

Best regards - Mike

[max_thehitman]

So,
As anyone found out what the new Banner with the Japanese biplanes is all about?
I have seen this picture before, but I can´t remember now.
I think its WW1 Japanese airplanes.... from DBW-1916 Il-2-Mod game 

[Duggy]

Its a colourized shot of  Spad 13's
Japan used Sopwiths/Nieuports etc in the early days as its own aircraft industry, was still in its infancy.

Regards Duggy

[poy]

biggest I could find 

[max_thehitman]

Cool picture mister Poy, Thanks for the "extra-large" size... I can notice the guy on the
right side has hair in his nostrils.

Now the questions remains... what type of aircraft is this?
and what type of fuel are they putting in it? (gasoline or diesel?) 

[poy]

[max_thehitman]

What airplanes are hidden under those bed-sheets?