P-38 Cutaway

[horseUSA]

P-38 Cutaway

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

nice pic, took i while to load, but i got there, btw, i like the idea of the baggage compartment

 

[cheddar cheese]

thats a great cutaway 8) ill just post here so lightning guy can have look at it, though he probably has seen loads of cutaways before of lightnings 8)

 

[Lightning Guy]

I've seen several. The baggage compartment wasn't all that big, but was useful for smuggling contraband (like scotch) into forward areas. More useful was the nose. I read that if the Lightning didn't carry ammo it could smuggle something like 4 cases of Aussie scotch up to the forward bases. These planes would inturn be escorted by Lightnings with a full ammo load.

 

[plan_D]

Priority cargo for the yanks..

 

[Lightning Guy]

Not just the Yanks. The Brits modified the bob racks on Spits to fly kegs of beer into Normandy.

 

[GermansRGeniuses]

And the Germans. They used their gas tanks as kegs flown by fighters and such.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

i supprised the brittish didn't smuggle tea insted of scotch..........

 

[Lightning Guy]

Adolf Galland once flew his Bf-109 to a high level party. He was carrying champagne and lobster with him.

 

[plan_D]

It was a joke

Yes, everyone still does it now. I've heard plenty of stories of smuggling stuff through now, like under panels in fighters, they don't get checked

 

[cheddar cheese]

 

[GermansRGeniuses]

What if the last B-36 had its bomb bay turned into a huge keg? The "Coalition" (Allies sounds sooo much better!) could use it as a super long-range morale booster! It's a crazy plan but it would work!

 

[Lightning Guy]

That would be an aweful lot of beer.

 

[plan_D]

I'm up for drinking it...

 

[cheddar cheese]

or, if a lancaster carried a 22,000lb pinata hanging below it on a few heavy duty chains, and a hurricane and a spit had to shoot at it to break it open to release the sweets hang on, maybe thats why the lancaster is at the BBMF

 

[plan_D]

I think a lot of people stood under it are going to die, but again, I'm up for it...

 

[cheddar cheese]

"death by murray mints" that would make an interesting gravestone

 

[plan_D]

He lived with choclate, and he died by it.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

they're not doing very well if that's what they're trying to do ...........

 

[cheddar cheese]

what?