Recent content by AerialTorpedoDude69

@MiTasol there are parts of europe where the landmass is rising because of a phenomenon called isostatic rebound. We know that isostatic rebound is causing this because we have access to GPS and altimeter measurements, which shows that while northern England is rising, southern england is...

Russia's cyberwarfare division specifically targets climate change conspiracy theorists. State-backed disinformation is incredibly difficult to identify. I was fooled by Tulsi Gabbard's spiel when Russian state hackers broke into the emails of weapons inspectors and constructed a pro-Assad...

Mercer said that IF the entirety of the Western ice sheet collapsed into the ocean, it would raise sea levels globally (on average) by 16 feet. But because the entirety of the ice has not fallen into the ocean yet, only parts of it have, his prediction has proven accurate. I envy that you grew...

Sorry to spam everyone with comments, but MiTasol and I commented at the same time and I didn't get a respond to his last post. The "10-year-old report by the first climate scientist to claim massive sea level rises" is an example of big oil-funded disinformation. This scientist has never...

@11bwmech the meme that @MiTasol posted is hilarious but the Australian government itself has responded to it because it is essentially big oil-funded disinformation. In 140 years, the sea has risen 8.1 cm (in Sydney Harbor, sorry for not being clear), which is trivial and easily within the...

Hey Greg, thanks for the kind words. 🙏 Since writing that comment years ago, I've learned from this forum that Francillon probably used the data found in the 1950s "General View of Japanese Military Aircraft in The Pacific War" for the majority of his performance data. There are some odd...

@MiTasol did you hear about the RAT malfunctions? https://infra.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/aviation/air-india-says-rat-deployment-on-aircraft-not-caused-by-system-fault-or-pilot-error/124472283 The October 4th deployment was attributed to a technical glitch, although there is now some...

According to the link, it's exactly what you wrote: the model designation is Raiden Type 33. The quad 20mm version is known as the Raiden Type 33 Ko, written in Japanese as 雷電 三三甲型. But I don't see the correct submodel designation for the 30mm cannon-equipped model, which suggests that the 30mm...

According to Japanese Wikipedia's entry on the J2M5, it was optionally equipped with the Type 5 30mm cannon. The number type of the J2M5 was 33 and there didn't seem to be a subdesignation for 30mm-equipped J2M5. One ace had scored some victories using a Raiden equipped with the Type 5...

Horrific. I hope he gets adequate medical treatment in the UK because it sounds like his doctors are not up on the latest research. The least understood injuries from traumatic accidents are to the brain. The tell-tale sign that the survivor suffered a TBI are his facial bruising and...

@Juha3 that's a cool as hell anecdote. Regarding the shell's origin, I believe you are correct that it came from a P-38, although I hope that @Shortround6 can chime in as he has an extraordinary knowledge of munitions. The Hispano Suiza HEI 20mm shell fragment seems to be slightly blue-green...

The Pacific Wrecks article mentioned that it was a 20mm HEI fragment (which meant it had exploded): https://pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/p-38/44-24845/mason/index.html Here's an image of the fragment: https://pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/p-38/44-24845/2000/20mm.jpg It looks to me like it hit...

@Juha3 thanks for putting all that together. Interestingly, Mason found exploded 20mm rounds inside of McGuire's cockpit, although there was no mention whether or not these were Japanese or American. As the P-38 was armed with a 20mm cannon in the forward fuselage, it seems unlikely that these...

I doubt anyone here thinks that the Ma-Dan or even Ma-Dan-Minengeschoss rounds made the Ki-43 anything even close to an Allied fighter in terms of armament. But those rounds do help explain why the Ki-43 was able to knock down a fair amount of medium-sized bombers. Pound-for-pound, the Ki-43...

Thanks for catching that! I misread it, its dimensions are 3,250 ft × 240 ft. I'm the one who needs editing, not Wikipedia. I can't find info on the Ki-44's takeoff run, but it seems to be somewhere around that length. I think it's entirely possible that the Ki-44 could have been flown from a...