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I see frequent use of this term in Barrie Hygate’s British Experimental Jet Aircraft and presume it was a device capable, as the name suggests, of monitoring flight parameters while the aircraft was being tested. But how did it work? Did it record these parameters for post-flight analysis, or did it transmit them to the ground in real time? What did this gadget look like? I have attempted to find an explanation, but Google has not been my friend.
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I've a Pegasus XFV-1 kit in 1/72 in the odds & ends box, that is missing it's canopy. Looking around, there's the Valom one as possible source, but that has it own problems (spine for instance) But I was just wondering about how these experimentals are sometimes built: Apart from specific main airframe parts, I'd guess things as seats, IP and possibly windscreen & canopies would be sourced from existing components or designs to make the process go faster. What would be a suitable (perhaps Lockheed stable) alternative if my theory holds? Or was it a complete new designed windscreen & hood?
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Hi, all! As we know in WWII many US manufactures used own interior green which was differences in shadow from during with mid-war standard ANA ( ANA 611 interior green), "mysterious Bell interior green", "Curtis interior green" e.t.c whether the practice of using one's own original colors on experimental, pre-production aircraft of US aircraft firms continued or after the IIWW everything was painted in ANA 611 standard? As examples: - interior green in cocpit Curtis XF-87 Nighthawk was "Curtis interior green" or "Interior green ANA 611/ late FS34151"; - Convair XF-92 Dart was own "Convair interior green" or standard "Interior green ANA 611/ late FS34151"; - Bell XP-83 was in "Bell interior green" or standard "Interior green ANA 611/ late FS34151" e.t.c. Why the question? I painted cockpit XF-87 in "Interior green ANA 611/ late FS34151" but now I doubt maybe cockpit XF-87 was "Curtis interior green"? B.R. Serge
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I've just learned of this from another modelling forum; NASA is currently uploading hundreds of rare aircraft films to Youtube. More can be found here at the NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center. Mike
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