Excellent geeking here.
WWII is more my field - I recently overheard a someone refer to a Westland Lysander as "cargo plane" which rather upset me.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 11:06, 1 reply, 11 years ago)

For a *very* small amount of cargo.....

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 11:20, Reply)

Well quite.
It was far more of a transit plane for injecting spies/parachutists into an area or for unique well-targeted bombings.

Cargo is like ... Lancasters, Wellingtons and shiz, inner.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 11:28, Reply)

Yer
the Lysander was very STOL so could land in a field, many stories of being landed/taken off in distances substantially shorter than the designers ever intended....
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 11:31, Reply)

I seem to remember something about them being able to fly at 40mph or something? But that can't be right - they couldn't maintain airspeed velocity at that.
Laden or unladen. But yeah - landing and taking off from a field = very useful.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 11:34, Reply)

I can see your neckbeards

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 11:36, Reply)

Touch it.
It's silky-smooth.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 2 Jun 2014, 11:55, Reply)