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02-08-2005, 01:20 PM
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| Roy Brown, who was chasing the Baron that day, was going to the aid of his friend, Wop May, a novice combat pilot who went on to be a famous Canadian bush pilot. May got 13 'kills' during WW1.
link to May's adventure that day, http://www.kaisersbunker.com/rfc/rfc15.htm
Brown was born 50km from where I live.
A map of the flight paths. Baron - Red, May - Yellow, Brown - Blue 
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05-24-2005, 06:53 AM
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Country:  | I know the Sopwith Camel was a good advanced fighter but very tricky to fly. | |
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08-06-2005, 09:35 PM
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| i know roland garros was an early french ace who was shot down and taken prisoner.his morane monoplane crash landed over the german lines and he was captured before he had time to set fire to his plane.the unique thing to his morane was he had his own interrupter mechanism fitted to it.the outcome was the germans examined the device and introduced it to anthony fokker.he made some modifications and voila he was credited with being the genius of the interrupter mechanism.when garros escaped from his prison camp he was immediately back in his squadron and up in the air with 2 hours.several weeks later he was killed in action by an albatross.he was flying against a superior machine and was flying with rusty skills.the speed and manouverability of this unfamilliar fighter to him was to cause his death.in the time of his absense from the skys aircraft became faster more heavily armed and lethal killing machines.
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08-07-2005, 06:54 PM
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| I think I am right in saying that Roland Garros didn't have an interrupter gear on his Morane. What he had were thick metal plates so that when the bullet hit the propeller it would deflect off and not destroy the blade. Crude, basic and rough certainly, but it did work. | |
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08-07-2005, 07:29 PM
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08-08-2005, 12:45 AM
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| You can see the deflectors in this pic.  | |
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08-08-2005, 08:18 AM
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| ok sorry guys feel free to jump on me for that.
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08-08-2005, 08:35 AM
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| heres the actual facts.
Other aircraft designers such as Franz Schneider in Germany and Raymond Saulnier in France were also working on the same idea. In the early months of 1915, the French pilot, Roland Garros, added deflector plates to the blades of the propeller of his Morane-Saulnier. The idea being that these small wedges of toughened steel would divert the passage of those bullets which struck the blades.
After the Morane-Saulnier that Roland Garros was flying crashed at Courtrai on 19th April, 1915, Anton Fokkerwas able to inspect these deflector blades. Fokker and his designers decided to take it one stage further by developing an interrupter mechanism. A cam was attached to the crankshaft of the engine in line with each propeller blade, when the blade reached a position in which it might be struck by bullets from the machine-gun, the relevant cam actuated a pushrod which, by means of a series of linkages, stopped the gun from firing. When the blade was clear, the linkages retracted, allowing the gun to fire.
i hope i,ve managed to make ammends for my mistake guys?
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08-08-2005, 03:04 PM
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| JRK. Dont take it badly. Everyone on this site makes observations and sometimes you find that a belief that you had was wrong or that you hadn't thought of a particular angle. Certainly its happened to me. That is how you learn. | |
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08-08-2005, 05:55 PM
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08-08-2005, 06:20 PM
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| Interesting that it had an upward firing cannon. Pity we didn't remember the lesson | |
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