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Romanian Combat Aircraft projects, Combat aircraft Projects| Ross Hackett |
Posted: July 09, 2007 02:00 pm
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Please can anyone help with any Romanian Home grown combat aircraft & transport projects I know of IAR 39 IAR80/81/81c its if they designed anymore that did not leave the drawing board or production stage
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| Victor |
Posted: July 09, 2007 04:50 pm
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What time frame do you have in mind? Just WWII or also interwar projects?
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| Ross Hackett |
Posted: July 09, 2007 06:28 pm
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World War Two I am interested in Fighter,Fighterbomber bomber & transport projects I know as I say about the IAR80etc and IAR38/39 but I understand they were working on at least one dive bomber IAR471 which I have no plans etc. but they MUST have been working on other projects 39/44
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| Jaws |
Posted: January 12, 2008 06:18 pm
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I wish they would have put the BMW801D on the IAR-80/81
 That engine would have made the IAR 80/81 one of the best mid/late war fighters. I saw this drawing by Zamex on this forum:  ...and i got caried away  :  |
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| Dénes |
Posted: January 12, 2008 06:25 pm
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The airframe of the I.A.R. 80 was not designed for such a powerful engine (double than the original radial). The BMW 801 could not have been fitted straight to the airframe, which should have been redesigned and reinforced first. Therefore, the outcome would not have been that straight forward as many suggest. Gen. Dénes This post has been edited by Dénes on January 12, 2008 06:27 pm |
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| Jaws |
Posted: January 12, 2008 07:57 pm
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Absolutely agree.
Even the Jumo they tried was too much for the fragile IAR-80 airframe to take. The 801D would have shaken the airframe to bits. |
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| Iamandi |
Posted: January 14, 2008 07:27 am
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Can i ask something, as an add to this topic?
How about the armament? There were plans to change something? On that "M" testing variant of IAR-80, or in general, whas any new armament formula planned for a future version of 80/81? I don't know... 2 MG * 13.2 m.m. and 2*20 m.m.? Coaxial gun for a new engine? MG's above the engine? A bigger bomb under the "belly"? A "pod" in place of the bomb, with a gun, or anithyng different? I can dream a loat in my alternative history writings, something like reverse engineering for Berezin UB or Berezin B-20 from soviet captured planes or from the wrecks of shut down-ed planes... but what was in reality? Was anithing negociated with Germany? A license for 13.2 m.m. MG's? Thank you, Iama |
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