Powering JSF: One Engine Is Enough.

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On Feb 11, 12:06*pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
(Richard Casady) wrote
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On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:50:44 -0500, "Dean A. Markley"
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dott.Piergiorgio wrote:
Ed Rasimus ha scritto:

And, don't even get started on the one engine versus two engine
aircraft business. Single engine fighters have been doing quite
nicel
y
for decades....ooops, make that more than a century.

More a century, yes, for *aircrafts* ; for *fighters* I guess
we're still 5-7 years prior of a century of Fighters.... (depend
on one's interpretation of what bird was the first Fighter...)

Best regards from Italy,
Dott. Piergiorgio.

So what was the first "true" fighter plane? *I am not even going to
attempt to set limits on this. *Let's just let 'er rip.

I think about the first really decent fighters were the ones that
could fire two guns through the prop. Two seat aircraft with a guy
in back with a single gun just didn't make the cut.

I bet you wouldn't say that if you were in an unarmed airplane
nearby.

Bertie

Among the blind, the one-eyed rules?


Yeah! if you were in a BE2 or a Taube with nothing but a pistol and
something with a flexible gun and two knots on you comes along, it's the
deadliest thing on the planet in your eyes.


bertie


Bertie

On Feb 8, 7:50 pm, "Dean A. Markley" wrote:
dott.Piergiorgio wrote:
Ed Rasimus ha scritto:

And, don't even get started on the one engine versus two engine
aircraft business. Single engine fighters have been doing quite nicely
for decades....ooops, make that more than a century.

More a century, yes, for *aircrafts* ; for *fighters* I guess we're
still 5-7 years prior of a century of Fighters.... (depend on one's
interpretation of what bird was the first Fighter...)

Best regards from Italy,
Dott. Piergiorgio.

So what was the first "true" fighter plane? I am not even going to
attempt to set limits on this. Let's just let 'er rip.

Dean

SNIP

Wright Model B pusher of the US Army in 1911. One Lewis gun pointed by
the gunner (CPT Raymond Chandler) while the other guy drove.

http://www.first-to-fly.com/History%...0Model%20B.jpg

"beausabre" wrote in message
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On Feb 8, 7:50 pm, "Dean A. Markley" wrote:


So what was the first "true" fighter plane? I am not even going to
attempt to set limits on this. Let's just let 'er rip.

Wright Model B pusher of the US Army in 1911. One Lewis gun pointed by
the gunner (CPT Raymond Chandler) while the other guy drove.

http://www.first-to-fly.com/History%...0Model%20B.jpg

Pretty cool photo. It looks like the Lewis gun was strapped down, limiting
attacks to from above; not that that's a bad thing.

Glenn D.