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Dear friends, some sources insists that about 10 000 Go.145 were built in Germany. It seems too much, because from 1939 to 1945 only 11546 school aircraft were built at all. Other authors speak about 1182 Go.145. Couldn't you clearify this? And how many Go.145 were built in Turkey and...

gekho, thank you a lot for such cool photos!.

In some sources is mentioned that prototype Ki-1 flew with Rolls-Royce Buzzard engines. Wasn't Mitsubishi Ha-2 a development of Buzzard?

Here is data of He.162 obtained in the Soviet NII VVS in 1946 during tests of captured airplanes. Probably, the speed achieved is less than maximal: there was no full documentation and, may be, engine and aircraft were used not in optimal manner. Short-time speed (1 min): Speed, km/h...

I very doubt that in 1945, during the war, Heinkel supplied Jane's by "data from manufacturer", don't you agree? Jane's staff just did some estimations. The same story was about Soviet aircrafts. Jane's data very often was completely wrong, sometimes they even mixed design bureau. PS...

Here are photo and scheme of Kl.35 + DFS.230 composite aircraft and photo of Fw.56 + DFS 230 joint. Both variants couldn't take off without help, and were towed by Ju.52/3m. After the take-off they flew independently.

It's one of my three lovely aicraft (other two are DC-3 and SR-71)

Here are figures for USSR from the book Aircraft production in USSR (1917-1945), two volumes. Publishing TsAGI (Central Aero-Hydrodynamics Institute), 1994. 1940 - 10565 aircraft 1941: 7081 fighters, 3754 bombers, 1542 attack, 257 transport, 3101 trainers Total: 15735 including 5858 aircraft...

In USSR there were about 20 big aircraft factories. We didn't build underground factories, but moved many industries to the East. Before the WW2 main aircraft factories were in Moscow, Leningrad (now Saint-Petersburg), Kharkov, Gorky (now Nizny Novgorod), Saratov, Voronezh, Kazan...

In USSR in my opinion was a mistake to abandon Polikarpov I-185 (as before very progressive I-17 was abandoned and I-200 was transferred from Polikarpov to Mikoyan). Also, stopping production of Tu-2 in 1942 was a mistake.