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The HeS 30 was axial flow.

A definition of dice from Ambrose Bierce: Dice, n. Small polka-dotted cubes of ivory, constructed like a lawyer to lie on any side, but commonly on the wrong one.

When you're dead, you do not know that you are dead. The pain is felt by others. The same thing happens when you're stupid.

I am not sure where to put this but I found an article https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/08/battle-save-last-dambuster-bomber-swedish-environmentalists/ on the issue of what to do with the wreck of Lancaster NF920.

One late war possibility for combining accurate dive bombing with an ability for the bomber to defend itself is illustrated by the F4U which could bomb quite accurately after lowering its undercarriage...

No love for the He 119 Heinkel He 119 ?

Goodwin and Starkings seem to suggest that the story was one of a slow retreat from the planned Sakae 31 back towards the performance of the Sakae 21: "In November 1944 one was installed in the A6M6c Model 53c" ...snip... "By then this engine model had been de-rated, although it still offered...

In 1944 Nakajima's engineers were mostly working on the Ha-45 or Homare and had managed to get around 2000 hp at 3000 rpm. It seemed attractive to use that work to raise the power of the Ha-115, Ha-35 or Sakae by dropping in 14 of the Homare cylinders and possibly increase the rpm. It wasn't...

If I wanted to derail this thread, I could point out the problems of warming up aircraft on an aircraft carrier. This was one reason why the USN wanted open hangars. The RN wanted closed hangars, ideally surrounded by armour. Thus they wanted electric oil heaters in their aircraft.

From a FB post by Neil deGrasse Tyson quoted by Rob Stuart KdB's route to Pearl Harbor, per a flatearther - Tully's Port

One minor question is when did the Allies learn about the R4M rockets? Until they knew about the R4M, any bombers destroyed by R4M rockets will have probably been described as being lost to FLAK.

The photographer for a national magazine was assigned to get photos of a great forest fire. Smoke at the scene was too thick to get any good shots, so he frantically called his home office to hire a plane. "It will be waiting for you at the airport!" he was assured by his editor. As soon as he...

Boring comment – He made the hand exactly follow the shadow of a sundial, which is why clockwise turns the way it does.

The A5M would be another example a5m fighter - Japanese Forces | Gallery