Hi guys
I'm doing a lot of research on the Czech Heinkel He 219, of which two examples were built and know as 'LB-79'. One of these aircraft was to be used as a test bed for BMW-003 engines, again captured technology from Nazi Germany, with testing in the very early 1950s.
I'm translating personal recollections as quoted in a Czech language book. I found this part intriguing:
'A lot of preparatory work was done by Letov on the ‘parallelogram’ - a retractable device with attachments for the BMW-003 engine'
I can already envisage what this device looks like (a scissor jack) but I am wondering if there are any other examples in this period of aviation history of such Heath-Robinson devices, perhaps in the Soviet Union? Or were jet engines generally firmly attached to hardpoints / pylons?
One shudders to think what would happen if such a flimsy sounding device were to fail whilst a jet engine was strapped to it and fired up...
thanks in advance
Rich
I'm doing a lot of research on the Czech Heinkel He 219, of which two examples were built and know as 'LB-79'. One of these aircraft was to be used as a test bed for BMW-003 engines, again captured technology from Nazi Germany, with testing in the very early 1950s.
I'm translating personal recollections as quoted in a Czech language book. I found this part intriguing:
'A lot of preparatory work was done by Letov on the ‘parallelogram’ - a retractable device with attachments for the BMW-003 engine'
I can already envisage what this device looks like (a scissor jack) but I am wondering if there are any other examples in this period of aviation history of such Heath-Robinson devices, perhaps in the Soviet Union? Or were jet engines generally firmly attached to hardpoints / pylons?
One shudders to think what would happen if such a flimsy sounding device were to fail whilst a jet engine was strapped to it and fired up...
thanks in advance
Rich