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    How good a plane was the P-40, really?

    A&AEE has the Hurricane II losing 7 mph and 2,800 ft in full-throttle height when tropicalized. These were two different aircraft, so not a perfect comparison. Also, the tropicalized aircraft was a IIa vs. the normal IIb tested, so the tropical conversion is probably a 9-8 mph loss. I'm not...
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    How good a plane was the P-40, really?

    From Pilot's Flight Operating Instructions for Army Model P-40F and P-40L.
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    Was Operation Pedestal a greater Axis air attack than any faced by the USN in 1942?

    It's possible that ACM Peirce wasn't quite buying what AVM Williams was saying and made moves for Spitfires right away. From A Critical Analysis of the Royal Air Force Air Superiority Campaign in India, Burma and Malaya, 1941-1945 - Peter Norman Preston-Hough Richey submitted his report to...
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    Was Operation Pedestal a greater Axis air attack than any faced by the USN in 1942?

    Why did Richey feel the need to address this in his memo (and received pushback on this very point) if the RAF unit leaders were fighting the Japanese fighters properly?
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    Was Operation Pedestal a greater Axis air attack than any faced by the USN in 1942?

    Plenty of anecdotes on this, but I find the report from the Air Corps Material Division succinct: P-40E vs. Hurricane: The Hurricane can easily turn inside the P-40E and was able to continue turning after the P-40E had stalled. With the P-40E on the tail of the Hurricane it was possible for the...
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    Was Operation Pedestal a greater Axis air attack than any faced by the USN in 1942?

    See page 88 of Shores' Bloody Shambles volume 3. They're well into 1943 and it seems like the 'boom and zoom' tactics proposed by Paul Richey aren't received too well by the higher ups. My feeling is that because the Hurricane was a very good 'turn-fighter' against most fighters, there was some...
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    Was Operation Pedestal a greater Axis air attack than any faced by the USN in 1942?

    Would you include proper tactics in that category of 'similar conditions'? If we're judging the two machines in that time and space it really seems the P-40 was used properly (more often, at least) vs. the Ki43 than the Hurricane was.
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    Mitsubishi F1m Pete having good sound control?

    My guess is it's referring to control harmony.
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    How good a plane was the P-40, really?

    April 1940 - ordered July 1941 - aircraft began arriving August 1941 - received by 601 Squadron October 1941 - first action
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    What if the Germans had radar proximity fused AA shells?

    To this point, in the conclusions of Army Operational Research Group - Report No. 259 - Technical Review of AA Defences Against Flying Bombs; The results achieved could never have been obtained without T98 fuzes. But what is important, and what is inclined to be overlooked, is that the T98 fuze...
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    1939 Tactical Bomber

    I think anything but a fighter-bomber type would be too vulnerable.
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    RAF Barr & Stroud MK. II gun sight scale drawings

    Again - sorry, nothing official ... but a sketch of mine of the older version that Wurger was showing. A few photos that might help too:
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    P-38 Diving Characteristics Report

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    P-38 Diving Characteristics Report

    I'll get them in a suitable format and post -- hopefully this weekend. The graphs / photos probably wont turn out too great.
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    P-38 Diving Characteristics Report

    Not exactly what you're after and you might have it already, but I have: Investigation of Tail Buffeting Conditions on Lockheed P.38 Airplane including Appendix I - Investigation of Dive Characteristics of the YP-38 Airplane Lockheed Aircraft Corporation Report No. 2414 February 1942 and...
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