But what if it had? And if Airpeed had built them in numbers? Here is a Youtube video about a very strange design. Would it have been rubbish? It certainly looks like it would've been easy to bail out of, fortunately. Well, if not good for anything else it could've been used for photo-reconnaissance. Right?
A British plane that never left the drawing board.
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Yeah, the video pretty much captured all of the obvious issues I'd foreseen: yaw, visibility, CG, G-forces, not to mention the vulnerability of the pilot to attacks from the rear. I can't see anything shy of blatant corruption seeing this implemented beyond the prototype stage.
Yeah, the video pretty much captured all of the obvious issues I'd foreseen: yaw, visibility, CG, G-forces, not to mention the vulnerability of the pilot to attacks from the rear. I can't see anything shy of blatant corruption seeing this implemented beyond the prototype stage.
Pretty sure a couple shots of it will drive you blind.
Only scenario I can think of where it makes sense.
That, or someone had a better job lined up and needed to released from his contract to take it.
I was thinking a hated son in law was the company test pilot.
I doubt that even in the 1930's any inspector would clear that abomination for a test flight, maybe not even taxi trials.
Bleibeere schnapps, very sweet and quite hard to put down.....
the Airpeed AS.31 aka Airspeed F.35/35. a proposal for The British specification 35/35, what became the Spitfire.
they look into proposal and rejected it, one for missing rudder or fin surface, the other the pilot would endure higher G-forces in gondola.
On one hand, I've found a new steampunk fighter!
Otoh... this is what happens when you put too much rum in your tea...
Otoh... this is what happens when you put too much rum in your tea...