|
|
|
#1
09-19-2014, 05:32 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Barling Bomber Video_The plane almost too big to fly
Barling Bomber & Air Speed Record - US Army Air Corps - Part 3 - 1924 - YouTube
Barling bomber starts at about 2:01. The Barling was stranded in the Mid West as it was incapable of gaining enough altitude to fly over West Virginia. More pictures and plans and history of Barling Bomber: http://www.airwar.ru/enc/bww1/nbl.html Any designer up to the challenge of making a 1/48 model of it? Last edited by John Wagenseil; 09-19-2014 at 05:45 PM. 
|
| Google Adsense |
|
#2
09-19-2014, 08:48 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Never heard of the plane until today. Interesting story and history. With six engines and 2 1/2 wings, it would be a complex model to design and build, that's for sure.
__________________
This is a great hobby for the retiree - interesting, time-consuming, rewarding - and about as inexpensive a hobby as you can find. Shamelessly stolen from a post by rockpaperscissor 
|
|
#3
09-19-2014, 09:25 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Interesting flick. I knew one of the people in it. Les Maitland, the first to fly non-stop to Hawaii. He was a Episcopal Minister in later years and lived in Red Bluff, and was good friends with my father-in-law and attended my wedding.
He was also noted for being in charge of low level bombing in Europe during WWII, very interesting guy. Beard
|
|
#4
09-20-2014, 06:22 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
This blurb was amusing: "...shipped to Wright field in sections..."
 John, you find some very interesting stuff on the web.
__________________
~Doug~ AC010505 EAMUS CATULI! Audere est Facere THFC 19**-20** R.I.P. it up, Tear it up, Have a Ball
|
|
#5
09-20-2014, 07:13 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Good footage of a lot of U.S. aviation history, John. And very appropriate since the 67th anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Air Force was two days ago.
Many thanks for sharing this. Interesting that the limiting factor that kept the Barling Bomber from entering service was that it couldn't fly over the Appalachian Mountains in spite of those six Liberty engines. Don
|
| Google Adsense |
|
#6
09-20-2014, 12:55 PM
|
|||
|
|||
 I am sure the Barling Bomber was the deterrent that kept Canada from going to war with the US. Maybe the Canadians were terrified by the prospect of the flat empty places of Ontario Province being bombed by the Barling, or maybe they were paralyzed with laughter .I think this would be a great paper model, the Air Force Museum in Fairborn, Ohio has a cabinet full of recognition type models including one of the Barling. It dwarfs all its near contemporaries including the WWI German medium bombers. The wheels from the Barling are on display in the main hall.
|
|
#7
09-20-2014, 02:11 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
The only thing holding me back is I can't find a clear picture of what the engine nacelles looked like.
|
|
#8
09-20-2014, 04:16 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Quote:
If you make the model can you also make a flapper and a flivver to go with it as in these pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasma...n/photostream/ Lots of photos and a simple set of plan views at thie Russian site ?????? "??????????". ??????? ?????????????? Witteman-Lewis NBL-1 "Barling Bomber". ??? Vintage Air: Billy Mitchell's Barling This is best view of under middle wing nacelles I was able to find: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3TJiCQOScO...g-01cr2-12.jpg You can see shadows cast by one wall of the nacelle on the inner side of the inboard wall of the nacelle, and a lot of complex drag causing struts and rigging, small fuel tanks above the engine and small nacelles above the middle wing. Nacelles from stern https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/4561454923/ Witteman-Lewis NBL-1 Barling Bomber - bomber "Barling Bomber" by William F. Yeager Barling bomber http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/gg...000/36043v.jpg Good side view show un aerodynamic bulge of mid part of nacelles, behind flat front sides with louvres, and odd shaped faring of the machine gun nest in the box of the tubular hull. https://www.flickr.com/photos/amphal...422727/sizes/l http://www.kamov.net/wp-content/uplo...ing-Bomber.jpg Barling Bomber Triplane in Flight - IH162996 - Rights Managed - Stock Photo - Corbis Vintage Barling Bomber NBL 1 3 Views Specs RARE 506 | eBay http://www.corbisimages.com/images/C...a-920c2b9e469b http://media3.corbisimages.com/Corbi...s-IH162996.jpg Category:Witteman-Lewis XNBL-1 - Wikimedia Commons Last edited by John Wagenseil; 09-20-2014 at 04:47 PM.
|
|
#9
09-20-2014, 04:48 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
|
|
#10
09-20-2014, 04:53 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Dear Friends:
A tail dragger with a nose wheel? What kind of belt and suspender mentality was this? Wow, Miles Was the liberty engines use by boot leggers in the rum runner boats? Last edited by Miles Linnabery; 09-20-2014 at 04:55 PM. Reason: Late thought
|
| Google Adsense |
 |
|
|
Linear Mode
