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Spanish HA-1112 Buchón fighters used in the Battle of Britain movie, acting as Messerschmidt BF-109s. They have Rolls-Royce Merlin engines.

Speaking of air fighting in the war, this short has some good scenes and a surprise ending.

 

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Spanish HA-1112 Buchón fighters used in the Battle of Britain movie, acting as Messerschmidt BF-109s. They have Rolls-Royce Merlin engines.

Speaking of air fighting in the war, this short has some good scenes and a surprise ending.

Great underrated movie. Good cast .

 

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For your info, here's a bit of info on the Canadian side of the aircraft industry.
At one time, just a couple of years ago, Bombardier was the world's third largest civil aircraft manufacturer, after Boeing and Airbus. Bombardier, the company who invented the snowmobile, has recently divested itself of most of it's aircraft lines; formerly making the Dash-8 series which it sold to De Havilland who actually developed that aircraft in the first place.

Then they sold the Bombardier CRJ line to Mitsubishi, who was looking for a foothold in that field. Here it is in Lufthansa livery. (Two different sized versions).

The most recently developed airframe was going to be their light twin in the 120-150 seat segment, called the Bombardier C Series. Showing lots of promise regarding low fuel consumption, passenger comfort, ease of flying and maintenance, the costs went up until Bombardier decided to let AirBus take it over. It is now called the Airbus 220, but is still built in Canada. It's actually extremely popular with both the airlines who have them and passengers who fly them. Here's how it looks.

Swiss was the first airline to take delivery.

airBaltic has 22 of them with 28 more on order. Currently, their entire fleet consists of this one type of aircraft, having replaced all others in the past couple of years.

Bombardier still does make some smaller bizjets - they own Learjet, the Challenger series and the larger Global Express and Global 7500 which compete in the Gulfstream and Boeing BBJ class. More on that later.

 

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2018, they are back in the air.

 

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Germany's last ditch fighter effort, the Messerschmitt P1101 was too late. Designed around the Heinkel HeS 011 engine, it would have been more powerful than any other single engined jet at the time, with a maximum of 2,900 pounds of thrust.

This prototype aircraft had variable sweep wings; they couldn't be changed in flight but the ground crew could alter the sweep from 35, 40 to 45 degrees to determine which was the optimal angle.

As well as these features, the plane had a pressurized cockpit, an estimated top speed of 610 mph. and a 46,000 foot ceiling. The wings were designed to be tested up to mach 1. Four 30mm cannon were to be complimented with an additional 4 Ruhrstahl Ru 344 X-4 air to air missiles. Like the plane, these wire-guided missiles were not operational by the end of the war.

Incomplete, the aircraft was shipped to Bell Aircraft who studied the idea and built their X-5 around it, improving the design with electrically operated wing sweep that could be changed in flight.

Note the NACA painted on the wings, this was a time before NASA. Ultimately, the design wasn't that stable, and one of the two prototypes crashed due to spin problems. However, with much more power than the German design (4,900 pounds of thrust) it would hit 700 mph. and proved the way for later swing wing designs.

 

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