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> The I.A.R. 37/38/39 family of biplanes
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Posted: March 13, 2005 08:11 pm
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QUOTE (Dénes @ Mar 12 2005, 09:37 PM)

As for why was the I.A.R. 37 chosen as light bomber, it's probably because it had greater payload than the '38 and '39.
According to the specs. sheet, it was able to carry a total of 12 x 50 kg bombs, while her two younger sisters only 24 x 12 kg bombs (personally I am still perplexed as how coudl this wooden biplane carry 600 kg bombs, when the twin-engine all metal Henschel Hs 129 for example carried only max. 450 kg bombs and the much larger Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik only 400 kg...)

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Exactly! And we could also think of the twin-engine Potez 63, the first Romanian Royal Air Force dedicated assault airplane (along with the PZL 23), with a maximum of 400 kg bomb load…

I still have two questions:

- the bombs (for all three models) were carried in an internal bomb bay or on under wings/under fuselage racks (or both variants)? I remember seeing a photo (in a “Top Gun Magazine” issue) of a IAR 39 having some bombs (12 kilos, probably) attached under the wings…
- the forward firing MG (MGs?) were mounted in the wigs? And the back firings were twin MG or one ventral and one dorsal?

And an additional question, which were the specifications for the PZL model 23?
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