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Many years ago I made a comparison of Ki-44 with different fighter aircraft of 1942-43 and 44-45. Even late in the war the climb rate was competitive. 1942-43: 1944-45: I am planning to update the article at some point. Perhaps someone has suggestions on other aircraft to which it...

Thanks for that information Corsning. Do you have data for the Tojo 1 as well?

I assume that other tactics/approaches were also trained. Also, later in the war dive bombing became less common, and the Stuka transitioned to night bomber and AT missions. Lack of air superiority made dive bombing dangerous for it's crews. I think it was Rudel who explained how he would...

A small point. The fact that SU-2 had a radial engine did not make it better protected than Il-2. Yes, the radial engine is more resistant to damage but in the Il-2 the AM-35 was very well protected inside a "capsule". The liquid cooling meant that no large open frontal area were necessary. This...

A few months ago I read the excellent book on the Stirling written by Pino Lombardi (Short Stirling: The First of the RAF Heavy Bombers), and I would like to throw my 2 cents on the high altitude performance issue. Many sources point out that the Stirling's lack of performance was caused by the...

It is worth remembering that Fw 190 had very serious teething troubles, which needed quite a bit of time to iron out. By the time it was ready and available in numbers there was no point in completing the Graf Zeppelin. Hi Stona, can you confirm if this is for WW2 aircraft or modern ones?

I have a question about the Me 210 but I don’t think is worth opening a topic, so I will place it here. Back in 1943 a Me 210A-2 (W.Nr.2350) was sent to Japan, where it was operated by the Testing unit of the First Tachikawa Air Army Arsenal. Is there any information on the Japanese evaluation...

Many thanks Shortround6. I will have a look to the P-38 data to update the chart. I also plan to create another with the climb performance. I made a typo when mentioning the P-47, as you say it is end of 1942.

I have put together a graph comparing the maximum speed of different Allied fighters with that of Fw 190 A-1. I have aimed for types available in August 1941. It is fair to say that the Fw has a good advantage over all of them. The other advantages (dive, climb, firepower) have also been...

The Mosquito dropped from £6,000 in 1941 I double ckecked the data I saved and the person who wrote it was first talking about woking hours. Maybe he got confused. Tomo, have you not come across the prices paid by Yugoslavia when importing aircraft prior to the war? It would be interesting as...

When I look at the climb data (check topic on Bf 109 G-10/K-4) I get the impression that at high altitudes, the P-51 was comparable and even superior to the Bf 109. Is that fair to say?

The designer of the Zero, Jiro Horikoshi, wrote a book entitled "Eagles of Mitsubishi, The Story of the Zero Fighter". It is a little gem I would recommend it to anyone, as it deals with the process of designing a fighter. Horikoshi points out again and again how the weight of the Zero was...

There are some things about this battle that don’t add up. Why did Holland place Hood as the lead ship in his battle line? Why weren’t the shadowing cruisers called in for support (I concede probably to avoid breaking radio silence). The angle of approach is well known, as well as the reasons...

Hello Tomo, as others are saying the data are likely to be fragmented. I have also spent many hours trying to compare US/Soviet/German financial data and I would not recommend it! Anyway, this is from a discussion a few years ago: The Mosquito dropped from £6,000 in 1941 to £4,200 in 1944, the...

Glad that it was helpful I tend to take these accounts with a grain of salt, as the exact circumstances were not known. By April 1945 most pilots were probably interested in making it home alive and not prone to risks. Also, they could be running out of fuel. In any case the K-4/G-10 was a...