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The Glider Tank |
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| by Smigley Riggs - 2022 | If you've been here before - PRESS REFRESH | Click on Photos for large View in a new frame |
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Flying Aces Club |
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Some more FAC history and tradition... It was called a Winter Folly! You would spend most of the winter months building some crazy wild crate that probably wouldn't fly, but you had to to build it.
Never Ready Eddie |
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| 75mm canon with two 50 cals. | 3 man crew | |
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| The AeroTank - 1945 | just 5" by 5" square | needs a commander's head sticking thru the hatch |
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| Rear drive sprocket was geared to the rear wheel | Christie Tank clocked 70mph with treads, 104mph without in 1932 | AeroTank had the same high speed Convertible Drive. |
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| not much to go on here...but just enough! | based on the Christie Tank M1931 | |
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| Twin booms hot off the building board | Starting to look like a glider | added a stab |
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| covering and assembly has begun | Finished | |
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| needs a tank commander | ||
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