Paul, I thought the Allies during WWII never had a jet fighter. Regards, Bob S.
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Paul Sorenson <[email protected]> wrote: > Great pix of the Meteor. It was an interesting aircraft - the first jet > fighter to be used by the Allies in WWII - and the only one to be able to > perform the "Zurabatic Cartwheel". The maneuver was invented and flown by > Janusz Zurakowski, a veteran of the WWII air war and later a test pilot. An > all around interesting person. > > A description of the maneuver is below... > > "At the 1951 Farnborough Airshow, Żurakowski demonstrated a new aerobatics > manoeuvre, the "Zurabatic Cartwheel", in which he suspended the Gloster > Meteor G-7-1 prototype he was flying, in a vertical cartwheel. "This jet > manoeuvre was the first new aerobatic in 20 years."[6] The cartwheel used > the dangerously asymmetric behaviour the Meteor had with one engine > throttled back. The manoeuvre started with a vertical climb to 4,000 ft by > which point the aircraft had slowed to only 80 mph. Cutting the power of one > engine caused the Meteor to pivot. When the nose was pointing downwards, the > second engine was throttled back and the aircraft continued to rotate > through a further 360 degrees on momentum alone having lost nearly all > vertical velocity. Carrying out the cartwheel and recovering from it with > entering an inverted spin (which the Meteor could not be brought out of) > required great skill." > > The Wiki on Zurakowski is here... > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janusz_%C5%BBurakowski > > -p > > On 10/19/2011 2:37 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> >> Another lovely 1950s jet from the Duxford Air Show: the Gloster Meteor ... >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/6258219856/lightbox/ >> or >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/6258219856/ >> >> In pictures, this reminds me very much of a 1950s Sci Fi movie for some >> reason, but it was beautiful in flight and seemed that the pilot was >> enjoying tossing it about handily. >> >> Godfrey > > -- > Being old doesn't seem so old now that I'm old. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
