I got a book yesterday, that, for once, was not Mickey Mouse, it cover the Corsar in reasonable technical detail.
The dive brakes are the undercarriage doors which are directly connected to the gears.
So there.
That should come in handy.

I don't think those were dive brakes as that would have necessitated lowering the gear to activate them...
A selector handle in the cockpit within reach of the pilot's left hand is both landing gear actuator and dive brake operator. Seated at the bottom of a square U-shaped channel, the handle can be pushed to the left and up to lower the gear, or to the right and up to actuate the main gear dive brakes. The brakes allow a steep dive angle wothout excessive build up, useful in bombing. When the dive brake option is selected, the tailwheel remains retracted. If actuated at high speeds, the landing gear dive brakes may hand in the slipstream, not locking until the speed diminishes sufficiently to allow the hydraulic system to force the main gear down and locked, typically at or below 225 knots.
I remember I asked this awhile back.
I got a book yesterday, that, for once, was not Mickey Mouse, it cover the Corsar in reasonable technical detail.
The dive brakes are the undercarriage doors which are directly connected to the gears.
So there.
That should come in handy.
Dropping bombs on aircraft was actually tried by the Germans (if not the Russians and Japanese).
I believe the germans also experimented with upward firing munitions (not the cannons fired at an angle) that were triggered by a photelectric cell as they passed underneath the bomber formations.
Hagar, while, yes, it goes along the same lines of what you told me, the difference is there is a purposebuilt feature for dive brakes, not just lowering the gear.
http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=gen;action=display;num=1079380267;start=12I could be wrong but had an idea that the gear doors were used as dive brakes.
PS. Quote: The strong landing gear and the fairings attached to the strut made a suitable airbrake. On the actual plane, the landing gear handle had a dive brake position in addition to the extended and retracted positions. The dive brake position would extend the main gear but not the tailwheel because the tailwheel doors were not rated for high speeds.
No ones talked about aircraft of the Army Air Corps flying against Zeppelins in the First World war armed with a carbine, 15 rounds of ammunition and four incendery bombs. The idea was to use the carbine to slow the airship down a bit, then to fly over head and drop your bombs on it.
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