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The Supermarine Lion II was a state of the art racing plane in 1922.

I dont think there is a better example of a nation preparing to fight the last war not the next.

You give me hope for the future, I thought it was just me being useless, I had more issues with the Airfix Spitfire Mk V which would be on the shelf of doom if I had one, it is on the shelf of never to be touched again, looking like a Spitfire, as long as you dont get too close.

It is also proportional to the hunger of the person who buttered the toast and inversely proportional to how many slices of bread remain.

That is explained by Newtons eighth law, MAGIC.

The lift comes from the thrust of the engine and propeller when travelling vertically, in WW2 aircraft this is insufficient to continue so the plane slows rapidly and then stalls. However aircraft with bigger propellers and lower weight were introduced during WW2, they are called helicopters...

Are you discussing it being easier to climb with more weight?

You cannot have the same aerodynamics, whatever weight you have needs to be lifted, that lift is provided by the wings, to change from level flight you need to increase the AoA to provide that lift and climb, to climb with more weight needs more lift. I associate zoom climb to be a climb rate...

You can put as much weight as you like into Fokker Tri plane and it doesnt affect the maximum speed in a dive because the wings come off. The Hurricane with fabric and dope wings was heavier than one with metal wings but the maximum dive speed was lower, because the fabric started to balloon and...

That is what I posted, you cant quote a principle that applies in a vacuum when discussing aircraft that need air to fly and for their engines to work. Physical size is only part of the discussion, Concorde could cruise at a speed that would tear apart any WW2 aircraft, despite being much...

The weight of an aircraft like a Bearcat only matters when accelerating in to a dive, very quickly other laws of physics take over. A P-47 accelerated into a dive more quickly than a Spitfire but the Spitfire had a higher maximum dive speed. Due to compressibility issues a plane like the P-38...

It was an issue when no one had dropped one, whatever a physicist calculates these things have to be put into practice to be sure. If a Mosquito could be damaged by a cookie dropped too low, which I have read happened, then a nuclear bomb needed respect.

Both, first the ground then everything else in its path, in principle it is an expanding sphere of pressure.

Was there any reason they didnt turn gently before dropping or turn after the shock wave passed?

Maybe a misunderstanding, was it 11.5 milkes away when the bomb went off or when the shock wave caught up with it?