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A flight aboard the DoX - 1930 Posted by: Bomberguy
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By: 2007Colonial. on 20 Dec 11, 16:38:01
The Boffins in the Air Ministry ruined this plane, Arthur Gouge Short's cheif engineer wanted a 112' wingspan for good altitude performance, he was overuled and a very good design was? hobbled but not ruined! It did fly beautifully and was very agile for its size.
By: pramboy09. on 13 Nov 11, 23:36:06
@marksjersey856 it was the? 1940's everyone went to work in a suit and tie in those days.
By: marksjersey856. on 09 Nov 11, 17:54:40
only the british would build planes? in dress and business suits.
By: carmium. on 22 Oct 11, 03:21:33
@nibornodrog I didn't know that, but had definitely noticed the high wing loading in plan views of the Stirling. You have to wonder what discussion were had: "Gentlemen, in order to reach the desired altitude and avoid much danger from the enemy, our new bomber has to have a wider wingspan than current hangars can accommodate. We must modify a number of hangars." "Wot?! That will never do! Shorten the wings, fly it into the ack-ack, but change the hangars? Totally? impractical!"
By: nibornodrog. on 19 Sep 11, 09:28:56
The altidude limitation was caused by wing span being too short! It had to fit hangers that compromised? wing span. Why they didnt fit folding wing tips is beyond me!
By: oldironandy. on 20 Aug 11, 22:01:35
@fdsdh1 They could? spin easily on take off or landing but once airborne they were actually very manoevreable and could turn very sharply for such a large aircraft, even to the extent that they could out turn a ME 110.
By: fdsdh1. on 13 Aug 11, 11:38:25
i heard that if a? stirling turned too sharply it would fall into an unrecoverable stall is this true
By: Aussiephil99. on 08 Aug 11, 08:42:41
Imagine having a choice of being posted to a Stirling squadron or a Mosquito squadron. Stirling = almost? certain death
By: captmark97. on 29 Jul 11, 17:55:04
@zarquon53 The tall undercarriage was necessary for the great angle of attack on takeoff required for the relatively small wing to get the craft airborne. Angle of attack is the? angle between the horizontal and the plane of the wing. A few years later Vought designers had to put a tall nose gear on the delta-wing, jet F7U Cutlass to get it off the deck from a carrier. The Cutlass was underpowered to boot; the Naval aviators called it the Gutless Cutlass.
By: VeeGlo. on 28 Jul 11, 01:10:41
@zarquon53 The Stirling was designed and built with the ludicrous requirement of having a wingspan of < 100' to fit in existing RAF hangars!! The smallish wing and under-powered engines could not generate? enough lift at take off without aoa created by its' overly all landing gear.
By: buidseach. on 26 Jul 11, 21:12:37
@mosquito1958 could always build a? replica in sections im sure the plans and dimensions still exsist
By: timeniazaipal. on 20 Jul 11, 07:39:07
Guys, this is an interesting aircraft in the next year may appear? in the IL-2 Sturmovik
By: zarquon53. on 15 Jul 11, 01:44:49
Can anyone please explain why the thing had that Enormous bloody great undercarriage ? I dont mean the wheels diameter , that was for rough airfields , I mean the sheer HEIGHT of the thing off the deck . Crazy . The wings were virtually straight off the Sunderland Flying boat , and at the time the plane was designed the RAF preferred lots of small bombs , hence the cramped bomb bay layout - but as the? fuselage was just a parallel sided box , that could have easily been redesigned .
By: volumex2000. on 10 Jul 11, 12:31:02
I wonder why the USA didn't do a bomber called the 'Dollar'. Like say the Douglas Dollar ??
By: mosquito1958. on 04 Jun 11, 23:44:11
Real shame there are NO known full airframes of this bomber. I wish? they'd find one at the bottom of some freshwater lake complete and not too much corosion so it may be raised and restored then placed in the RAF museum Hendon. That would be nice.
By: chriswizz. on 25 Apr 11, 20:47:40
Fantastic video, thanks.?
By: martynpank. on 25 Apr 11, 01:03:53
@lOmnivoreSobriquet I like yr sentiments, but, in reality the Stirling was, not that good! A split bomb bay didn't? help! It's ceiling & climbing was dreadful too! In this part of the war, the Wimpey was king! But, if the 'Mitchell' 4 engined bomber wasn't destroyed during the Blitz, things would have been alot different! Thank Heavens 4 the Lanc.....But then, BC was in it's infancy!!! ......& I agree! Thnx BG!
By: lOmnivoreSobriquet. on 11 Apr 11, 08:32:05
2nd World War wouldn't have looked the same without the Stirling... and arguably wouldn't have happened the same even. I think the aircraft was more a moral booster to the Brits, than an actual moral breaker to the Germans... But it certainly looked right, for the task, and did bring a shape to Britain's effort in those difficult early war years. I allways cherished that Airfix model that I made of it as a teenage, back in end? 70's France.... Thx BG for this fine video again, discovering.
By: 2007Colonial. on 23 Feb 11, 19:42:41
Great shots of the Stirling, an excellent plane hobbled by the experts?? in the Air Ministry, it still was an excellent flying machine!
By: darren181170. on 07 Feb 11, 12:05:52
Macroberts reply is being released? in 1:72 scale as a die cast model by Corgi Aviation Archive in december. A fitting tribute .
By: DeeBoneham. on 03 Jan 11, 12:24:42
A very much underrated bomber. Bless all who flew? in them! RIP all who died in them including Sgt Edgar Harvey of 75 (NZ) Sqn...
By: Hanglands. on 20 Dec 10, 19:44:28
@Bomberguy Believe it or not, a friend of mine was in the next Stirling to take off after the original McRoberts Reply? (N6086), and witnessed the accident. The pilot of N6086 was Boggis. It happened at Lossiemouth.
By: muzlinkage. on 15 Dec 10, 08:57:17
I always liked the Stirling. Kind of regal?
By: KevinJKtheman. on 11 Dec 10, 18:31:32
@SapperK9 Take no notice of that sill german tart dopenhagen, she trolls Britsh? aircraft videos, running down the Brits, and trying to praise up, the luftwaffe, she takes it bad that they lost the war, sad little girl.
By: mistersmith6000. on 04 Dec 10, 03:48:30
Did they? even try fold-out wings, like aircraft carrier aircraft have. That way, they could have gotten a better ceiling as well as been able to park them in the hangars.