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This post has been edited 2 times, last edit by "Red Admiral" (May 27th 2008, 9:44am)
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Originally posted by Hood
The best bet is to buy a DC-3 paint it up in airline colours and install a secret camera bay and darkroom. Stealth at its best!
The RAF will employ Sidney Cotton at some point in the 1930s for just such a role.
1930s cameras are lilkely to be bulky, heavy and crappy at high altitudes. Once you fly high you need pressure cabins and superchargers etc. In fact such a spec is waay advanced for 1936, it will be an expensive plane.
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PB gives 5 m3 wing vol or 42% of capacity, required fuel faction is only 25%- so I think that means it theoretically can fit in the wings and/or booms, no fuel tank in the fighting compartment.
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Originally posted by Kaiser Kirk
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Originally posted by Hood
The best bet is to buy a DC-3 paint it up in airline colours and install a secret camera bay and darkroom. Stealth at its best!
The RAF will employ Sidney Cotton at some point in the 1930s for just such a role.
1930s cameras are lilkely to be bulky, heavy and crappy at high altitudes. Once you fly high you need pressure cabins and superchargers etc. In fact such a spec is waay advanced for 1936, it will be an expensive plane.
I think Hood has the best way.
Playing with trying to meet all three specs at once, my G-1c airframe can barely do the combo *in planebuilder*, but thats beyond the technical difficulties of operating that high that folks are pointing out, and really the plane isn't meant for it.
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Originally posted by Red Admiral
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PB gives 5 m3 wing vol or 42% of capacity, required fuel faction is only 25%- so I think that means it theoretically can fit in the wings and/or booms, no fuel tank in the fighting compartment.
No real chance of doing that. Wing tanks weren't very common in light aircraft at the time and movign the fuel away from the middle of the plane causes balance problems. Its very difficult to use the entire of the wing for fuel. Really only the middle third or so is thick enough for tanks, and about 10-20% of that space will be taken up by the ribs. You probably wouldn't want to mount fuel tanks out beyond the nacelles much for balance. The G.1 is rather limited for internal space, which is where drop tanks come in. However, for this application tip tanks would be more useful.
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