Posted on 07/26/2014 7:12:15 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch
Found this on Wikipedia though:
Prototype XP-82s, P-82Bs and P-82Es retained both fully equipped cockpits so that pilots could fly the aircraft from either position, alternating control on long flights, while later night fighter versions kept the cockpit on the left side only, placing the radar operator in the right position.
Very interesting!
Yep...as yarddog pointed out, it was actually a successful design, that kind of died on the vine due to the dawn of the jet age, but its intent was to provide long range escort to B-29s going to Japan (and later B-36s should the war have lasted that long). The B-36 was originally designed to bomb Japan from bases in Hawaii, and the Twin Mustang was going to be it’s escort, so you’d need two pilots to make the round trip.
We had a virtual aerial menagerie flying over us everyday -- but most of them were B-36s and P-82s. Plus, we also got all the F7U Cutlass traffic. They were being built at the Chance-Vought factory over in Grand Prairies, but the adjoining Naval Air Station either wasn't finished or couldn't handle them. As a consequence, the completed F7Us were disassembled and trucked over to Carswell, where they were re-assembled and tested.
In retrospect, those were three exotic designs.
Why not just carry and extra mag, or two guns?
Unfortunately for KAOS, the Japanese manufacturer didn't really understand the specifications. Squeezing the trigger caused the revolver play music from local radio stations...in stereo!
I saw one at the Dayton air force museum. I expected it to be about half the size it actually is. It’s huge.
Unless your problem is “how can I burn more expensive ammo”...
Twice the likelyhood to jam.
We had a virtual aerial menagerie flying over us everyday
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Your posting brought back memories! I grew up in West Dallas in Oak Cliff during the ‘40s-’50s, only a few miles from Mountain Creek Lake and NAS Dallas, which was on the NE side of the lake. ........btw, the NAS was operational in 1942 and several of our neighbors were active duty or reserve Marines/Navy who were stationed there.
We kids in the late ‘40s would watch the B-36s and also the Flying Wings (I forget the B-** designation) that would fly over from Carswell AFB (adjacent to Convair/General Dynamics). To us kids, those aircraft were awesome.
About a month into my Sr. year of HS, me and two friends enlisted in the Naval Air Reserves at NAS Dallas. It was primarily a training base with patrol (P2-Vs back then) and transport squadrons, but they also based F8-U Crusaders there.
That would be the YB-35 for the prop version and YB-49 for the jet one.
They keep trying to “improve” the 1911 - can’t improve perfection, just parody it....
Why not simply redesign the 1911 to carry a double stack magazine so the shooter has more shots?
- Half a Model 1859 4-Barrel Sharps Derringer or all of a Remington 2-Barrel Derringer -
- A “Volley-Fire” (rotating) Firing Pin modification works well on a Sharps Derringer (I hear)
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