Floating wing concepts

[kitnut617]

I've got the Omega Hurricane Slip-wing in my stash ---

Bet that cost an arm and a leg ? I've a few Omega bits in the stash and they can be pricey.

Yeah -- well  --- erm!  I've got eight of them, all different Hurricanes -- 

[JayBee]

The upper wing for the Hurricane was to be used so that the aircraft could take off with an over-weight load of fuel, once in the air the upper wing would be jettisoned.

To prove the concept F. Hill & Sons produced what we would now call a technology demonstrator called the Hillson BI-MONO.
Built using a number of  components from the Percival Proctor it was flown in both monoplane and Bi-plane forms.
The single successful flight in which the upper wings was released was carried out at a height of 4'500ft over the sea off Blackpool on the 16th July 1941.

The following photos of the Bi-Mono are taken from "British Aircraft at War 1939 – 45" by Gordon Swanborough.
Published by HPC Publishing.
ISBN  0-9531421-0-8




Jim

[NARSES2]

I've never seen that Jim (or forgotten it), many thanks 

I've got the Omega Hurricane Slip-wing in my stash ---

Bet that cost an arm and a leg ? I've a few Omega bits in the stash and they can be pricey.

Yeah -- well  --- erm!  I've got eight of them, all different Hurricanes -- 

My admiration grows  Does the wife know ?

Most of mine are the armament options they do and for what you get they are  Bought them when I first got back into the hobby and was on a bit of a feeding rush

[kitnut617]

I've got the Omega Hurricane Slip-wing in my stash ---

Bet that cost an arm and a leg ? I've a few Omega bits in the stash and they can be pricey.

Yeah -- well  --- erm!  I've got eight of them, all different Hurricanes --  

Does the wife know ?

     



Reading about the slip-wing, and the aircraft the concept was tested on, it was not liked by the test pilots ---

[JayBee]

Then of course  there was the Malianowski wing designed to increase the ferry range of the Spitfire.



This illustration taken from "The Spitfire story" by Alfred Price.

[PR19_Kit]

My old time friend, about as 'old time' as you Jim  , Ian Peacock built that Malinowski Spitfire in 1/48 from an Otaki kit (I think....) and a lot of scratcbuilding. He bought it along to the MK show this year and suitably wowed the Joe and Jane Publics with its weirdness.

[McColm]

Reminds me of the Lockheed Lightning.

[JayBee]

My old time friend, about as 'old time' as you Jim  , Ian Peacock built that Malinowski Spitfire in 1/48 from an Otaki kit (I think....) and a lot of scratcbuilding. He bought it along to the MK show this year and suitably wowed the Joe and Jane Publics with its weirdness.

WOW!

[kitnut617]

Then of course  there was the Malianowski wing designed to increase the ferry range of the Spitfire.



This illustration taken from "The Spitfire story" by Alfred Price.

The obvious thing I notice right away, the booms cut right through the rear wing spar, that's the one the ailerons and flaps are attached to - 

[PR19_Kit]

The obvious thing I notice right away, the booms cut right through the rear wing spar, that's the one the ailerons and flaps are attached to - 

It's a 1:1th scale Whiff, I think they had plans for getting around that problem, and I DO mean 'around'.....

[JayBee]

and I DO mean 'around'.....

Krivens Jings and help mi boab!

[wuzak]

It's the self supporting flying fuel tank the Luftwaffe trialled with a number of types. I'm not sure if it was ever used operationally though, anyone know?

I don't think it was.

Certsinly not with the He 177.

[jcf]

How about the 'tank-wing trailer' or a pair of fuel 'gliders'?

A NACA report from July 1942 that has both:
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19930092474.pdf

B-17, B-24, B-25 and B-26. 

Oh, yeah it also mentions carrying additional bombs in the 'over-sized' trailers for
the B-17 and B-24.

[wuzak]

I thought that additional bombs could be carried for the same range if the bomber could carry less fuel itself, the trailer carrying the extra required.