Recent content by Colin1

Yep sorry Chris, you might want to pull my last post, no sense in inflaming the issue

Because I doubt it would have changed anything blitzkrieg was a spectacularly successful war model across uninterrupted expanses of land. It flattened a France that no-one in Germany, in their right mind, would have even considered invading in 1938. Longer-ranged bombers and fighters to...

Yes I'm by no means the expert on night ops but that's largely how I understood it

No, you're quite right let's face it, Germany did lose the war :) but notwithstanding the increasingly short supply of fuel and the territorial gains being made by the Allies, the Nachtjagd had become extremely efficient at destroying bombers at night.

They are two different aircraft the first has the short fuselage and fin strake of (one of) the versions of the P-40K, the last one is indeed a P-40E

This is how I understood it as the conflict progressed into late-war, RAF losses at night began to mirror USAAF losses by day prior to effective long-range escort. Mosquito nightfighters didn't seem to be that good at picking out the Luftwaffe machines, relying more on the plume provided by a...

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Artwork labeled 'degenerate' by Nazis back on display in Germany - CNN.com

It would seem whatever model number she operated as, GA-X didn't have an easy life of it :)

An hysterical, incoherent ramble; can you verify ANYTHING you just said there?

Can we just define 'fast' here - I thought we were talking about the B-17 :)

I hope you're not planning to continue like this. Your contributions to threads are often glib, lacking depth, data, insight or thought provocation and sometimes relevance, contributing little or nothing of value to the debate, you were merely asked to present your credentials, which to date you...

I don't doubt it but fast? It was the slowest of the three. Any weight reduction not immediately taken up with payload would be a bit strange

I'm sure this topic's come up before I would imagine some of the Lancaster's payload advantage would need to be traded in when it gunned up - I wouldn't be surprised to see the addition of waist and Sperry ventral positions. Trying to fend off Sturmbock assault waves with .303 would be...

They're impressive If you recall the Tesla that Top Gear showed a couple of years ago, it got up to 60mph in a sub-4 second time, they've got impressive torque. It stuffed the petrol-driven car in the drag race, though I can't recall what the petrol-driven car was, it was no slouch. Not much...