Recent content by gingerbob

Why, are you wanting to break into one?

I suspect that the reason for more rounds on the inboard guns is "life insurance"- if you've shot your wad, you've still got a couple of guns if you need self-defense. As for "30 seconds of firing", it is a judgement call between weight saving and "Gee, now that I've taken the trouble to get...

The Schwarz was with them. (apologies if someone has already said this- wasn't going to read through six pages of nonsense!)

I would think that the "Dive Flap Indicator" on the left hand side was decidedly non-standard, too! As for your instrument, I was ready to suggest that it was the "self-destruct delay timer".

They added a bit at the root- note where the inner gear door sits on Ns vs earlier variants. Then the wing tip was "filled out" a bit, I think- not certain about this part- and clipped squarish.

OK, a "non-technical" hip-shooting summation of my understanding: Despite being a British project, as you say, the original Mustang was designed to USAAC standards. I don't know whether Schmued et al just thought it was a good idea, or whether they didn't want to give the American brass that...

I'd have to go looking for the numbers, and perhaps still not find them, but I think I recall that when I asked this question the answer was that the Allison one does have a bit smaller diameter. I'll report back if I do find the data.

It is quite likely that this prop could be used on more than one aircraft type (so, Oxford AND Anson?). There's nothing to say (necessarily) that a particular prop is definitively for one type of aircraft- unless it happens that it IS. Note also that it is left-hand rotation, so definitely not...

Maybe he got too high.

My limited experience is that ORBs for other than squadrons are EXTREMELY minimal. That is, they exist, but don't have much to say. No doubt there are exceptions, in fact one came to mind as I was typing. They also aren't available online, that I know of, unlike the squadron ones.

On the subject of Typhoon vs Hurricane size, the comparison photos (model parts) in this thread might be of interest: click here for Britmodeller thread

Of course they were told to do it, and therefore it WAS in the plan. Other development was also taking place. Yes, there were production problems, but that was true rather generally, even if the Spitfire was one of the more troubled types. (By the way, I realize that this comment comes well...

I was thinking along the lines of the "discussion" that began to take place from late '41 when the Fw was being encountered. Surely some German pilots received a rude surprise when the Spitfires they ran into behaved quite differently from what they were used to.

Well, OK, I guess I can allow expanding the question to include the XII, out of historical interest, but Ewen has very nicely addressed the point. The XII was very much (well, somewhat!) a special niche version, quite different situation from the IX- and later to be introduced in ops. It is...

Hi everybody, A thought managed to appear in my mind this morning: I know a lot about the RAF reaction to the Focke Wulf 190, but I don't recall seeing any contemporary Luftwaffe comments about a more fiery Spitfire when they started encountering the Mk.IX. A fairly common comment (in...