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Originally posted by Albany Rifles View PostLooks like an early biplane drone.
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Sorry stuck in that part of the world you need two passports. Anyway, AR is right it is a drone. https://gizmodo.com/this-flying-bomb...ssi-1184824802 I believe it is the first time anyone put a gyro on an aircraft.
AR the floor is yours.Last edited by Dazed; 26 Jul 18,, 23:22.
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Very good!
We all know of 617 Squadron being called the Dam Busters from their successful attack on the Ruhr Dams in 1943 in OPERATION CHASTISE.
In May 1951 in order to slow a Chinese advance VA-195 attacked the Hwachon Dam in their AD Skyraiders and torpedoed the dam. 6 torpedoes hit and breached the dam. From that action they have become know the Dam Busters.
http://www.navalaviationmuseum.org/h...t-hwachon-dam/
Your thread, Dazed“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
Mark Twain
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Originally posted by Gun Grape View PostOnce upon a time I did a model of a 1/350 Gearing Fram DD.
Would the drone aircraft be the Gyrodine QH-50 DASH?
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The picture you show is from a FRAM II Sumner Destroyer which also had DASH. You can see the variable Depth Sonar as well on the fantail. The drone was either controlled from the flight deck station or from Combat Information Center (CIC). The CIC controller would fly the Drone over a submarine and drop the torpedo. This was a very accurate delivery system and extended the range envelope for ASW weapons.
The technology was perhaps a little before its time. It was also used experimentally to spot gunfire during the Vietnam war.
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