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I'm thinking it was a combination of fully enclosed landing gear and substantially less cooling drag. I can't prove that, but every...

Well, you could use best angle or best rate. Best angle is steeper, but best rate will get you to a higher altitude faster than best...

I'm just gonna leave it somewhere around here....or there! 😍🥰😎

Here's Defiant I drew: Not a bad-looking airplane, but likely not a thoroughbred, either. Would have been a great plane to strafe a...

I wonder how much faster a Skua would be with a Yokosuka D4Y-like canopy.

It's too bad the Caproni Vizzola F.5 never made it into service. It's got Italy's best canopy until the FIAT G.59.

I would not say any angle. It comes down to when the aircraft arrives at it's best rate of climb airspeed and is at such a climb angle...

Next obvious question would be: At what angle of climb do you NOT consider it a Zoom Climb? 30 Degrees above horizontal? 80 Degrees...

It is also proportional to the hunger of the person who buttered the toast and inversely proportional to how many slices of bread remain.

C'mon! It made a good contribution to the RAF by proving to them that turret fighter with the same engine as a single-seater was not...

And I still say.....................

FWIW, people can check out the report by NACA, when they were trying different ways to lessen the effects of the compresibility on the...

I thought that was an immutable law of nature .... "Whatever can go wrong not only WILL go wrong, but will do so at the worst possible...

Not too sure. I was playing with you, not being obnoxious ... at least, I wasn't trying to be obnoxious. If I can answer seriously...

In a vacuum, there will be no lift, so there will be no climb, zoom or otherwise. Therefore mass DOES have an impact on zoom climb since...