How could you suspect it was me? First off, I refute your silly contentions far too easily and leave you crying like a little girl having lost her baby doll. Soren doesnt dispose of you as efficiently. Also, I don't argue the contestable points, like turn rate. I pick my battles. I remember...
Interesting, the allies chose not to employ slats so they must have been of little value. The NACA concluded they weren't needed. What did the Germans conclude?
I've read numerous reports of 109's out-turning Spitfires. I usually defer on that because the Spitfire enthusiasts should have...
The FW190 was a marvelous rolling plane even at very high speed. The 109 was a good rolling plane without gondolas, granted not as good as some. (Yaks for instance) With the ability of the FW to roll and all the P51's and P47's downed are you sure their aerilon attributes weren't fully...
I want to thank my new friend Peter Evans at
http://p069.ezboard.com/fluftwaffeexperten71774frm90.showMessage?topicID=41.topic
for being kind enough to provide me with the full text of CFE-3, which is the report for the Bf-109 in question. I’ll try to attach the salient parts of the...
Very powerful post Udet,
Regarding the two vs one. If Eric Hartmann starts at equal altitude I have no doubt he kills Preddy and Johnson in His G-10 or that they bug out cause he's way too much plane and pilot to deal with. I think Hartmann would give them fits in a G-6 as well and not...
Yes, That Jug took huge damage and flew home. I've seen other photos as bad or worse. The key to my mind is that they show the damage when its there. If Johnsons wings were as remotely shot up I tend to think in photos specifically taken to show damage, they would have showed the extent of it...
interesting engagement. Say 50 of the FW were bomber hunters and 50 support. Still the GB were apparently outnumbered in this one 100-50...maybe even steven for fighter configured aircraft. Two Spits drop on a FW another FW rallies to aid and the French Ace drops on him. It sounds even up for...
I tried to find an article about this story I read. It stated that every square foot of the plane was riddled with bullets. Thats clearly not the case. You are correct though. I don't think Johnson had a single kill at the time of the incident. Good point, my bad. My guess now is that the story...
No, it wasn't that bad. Pilots couldn't hear the engines of enemy planes so getting surprised was the way most of them went down and thats how the French Ace got that Focke Wulf. It was always bad to get dived upon.
The other story is a little quizzical because the Focke Wulf appears to have...
What you'll also find is that the great Luftwaffe Aces came in cycles. The aces from the B.o.B. were in very rare cases still the lead aces at the end of the war. The early aces were of course Molders, Galland, Marseilles, Pflanz, Philipp. Mid War Aces arose like Nowotney and a host of others...
hmmm, thats gonna be hard to resolve as pertains to Russia. I guess the early success can be attributed to I-15, I-16 and Mig 3 ineffectiveness and that when the Russian Planes improved Germany was generally on the defensive fighting over German held Russian territory. I don't know. I think the...
As a matter of fact Lanny, I just received my confirmation. I am a Lancasterite.
Its one helluva badass Whamma Jamma.
...and one other thing. The Jerries really had absolutely nothing to compare.
Very insightful post Udet.
The truth about WWII is that Germany was beaten by Russia's Army, Britain's Navy and America's Air Force. It really took all three to do it and its probably a good thing for the world they were able to reign in Hitler.
Britain's Air Force wasn't going to get...
The judge has removed you from the jury for cause: Bias and ignorance.
I agree the whole document might help. I searched for it and can't find it. Then again, i'm not sure it would shed more light. We have uncontroverted evidence regarding the following:
-Two "Wilde Sau" Bf 109G-6/U-2's...
This guy was obviously a skilled pilot, but I don't think I commented upon him before. I have a much higher opinion of Tempests than Spitfires and most of his kills were apparently in the Tempest. Thats a lot of FW's.
First off, the website doesn't claim the 109 was better than the...