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| Senior Member | cool. i have been so lucky to get to help restore the Liberty Belle when stationed in Florida and also when it was moved to Douglas-Georgia..i got quite some sticktime when it was flown from georgia to new Orleans ( this was three years ago ) and was the best flight in my life..flown the TF-51, T-6 and quite a few others but flying the B-17 really was a lifelong dream come true here is three pictures from that flight..have quite a few more..hehe |
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| Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: USA & Norway
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| The instrument in the original post does not appear to be a dive-related device. Typically German dive bombing aircraft had dive angles scribed on their side glass for direct reference to the horizon. This was inexpensive, had no moving parts to maintain and was light weight. The perfect German solution. Quote:
I would be thrilled to find out about what instrument controlled the automatic functions of the Ju-88 dive sequence. Do you have any technical reference on such an instrument? The Stuka Ju-87B-2 (1939) and subsequent models employed an electro-mechanical computing unit to assist dive recovery, which seems similar to the Ju-88 dive sequence. My family owns a 99% intact automatic dive recovery unit from a Stuka. We were not aware other aircraft used similar instruments, and would be interested in sharing information. Best, - Wiking | |
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