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Of course I don't have a source other than "a book", but the author claimed that after their early disasters, the casualty rates for the Soviet army were not disproportionately high. And then you have Chuikov and Zhukov and Stalin got smart enough not to micromanage, unlike Hitler. I'd heard...

I'm not expert but I have read that by the end of WW2 airplanes had been roughly developed to similar levels of performance. Victims were at the hands of pilots who were better or smarter or more numerous. Germany choked on its ambition and had no resources to churn out skilled pilots. Sheer...

I remember talk of it being turned into a nightclub, don't remember if it happened but better an intact nightclub than a sunken reef. Remind me never to buy a used warship or ocean liner please

Today you'd have lawsuits all over the place from kids poking their eyes out. Anyone remember when we had dangerous toys?

The Battle of Britain Playset, It just needs a fancy box. I used to collect tin toys, mainly reproduction, Schuco, Paya , many no name Chinese toys. These planes were made out of scrap non corrugated tin cans. I used the plane proflies to use a central brass tube to solder the outside panels to.

I've toy built many WW1 models also, they are quite a bit easier, all angle, no curves or filets. A Northrup Gamma was a huge pain

Moderators please move this to the appropriate section, I don't know where it is. thanks, Jack

Scratch built I envisioned these as post war toys for kids. Batteries are for prop and machine guns. I bought a cheap sound kit, don't care for the sound. These things are not fixable. They took at least 2 years to build. The barn swallow, I used for the pilot's insignia, the most graceful...

If they were designed as bomber attackers were they ever escorted by "real" fighters to provide cover?

The Centauro certainly has flair. If looks could kill...

I wonder why they didn't use catapults. That long take of must have used a lot of fuel. Pitch the catapult up at an angle, light the thing and fling it. Or at least use tow planes, was it too volatile?

So the Germans invented bull balls too, what visionaries.

Re that first link Wasn't the FW190 prototype set up like that?

Don't forget this, the most deadly foe of the Flapjack, unfortunately the prototype was used by General Patton on his own stack of flapjacks

The wings did flap up and down. And I remember the machine guns chugged away in reciprocating style.