Recent content by Holtzauge

PS: @spicmart : PM me and I'll send you the details about Kurt Tank's report.

Well thank you, and I appreciate your posts as well. Always nice with constructive input. But if you look at the absolute mess and the way likes are distributed in the thread I started about the Spitfire with a smaller wing size, I can totally understand why Calum Douglas deleted his account...

I do, but since the responses to my posts in this forum lately have been dismal why would I post anything about it here? ;)

Kurt Tank was actually convinced that it was impossible to do a sufficiently good compromise to have a fighter that performed sufficiently well both at 6000 m and at 12000 m. And since the Germans knew about the B-29, they knew that sooner or later B-29s may appear over Germany and they needed...

@drgondog and @Shortround6 : Check your PM's pls.

But it's not just KDP: Print on demand (POD) in general is a lottery if you want to look at it that way: Remember the examples of books from both Cambridge University Press and Potomac Books I gave you above. POD is what the name implies: They print a copy when you order it. But even if you...

The copies of my books I ordered to re-distribute myself (both the WW1 Aircraft Performance book and the new one covering the Spitfire Mk I and Bf 109 E) have been ordered from Germany. However, they are not as @bada observed printed there, but in Poland. However, those printed in Poland I...

My experience with Kindle so far has been good: Both when it comes to clearing new editions for publishing and handling problems. However, what you need to keep in mind when going via Kindle is that the book is printed close to the customer. This means different printers, and potentially...

Thank you for those kind words and I hope you will like it! And don't hesitate to contact me here or via the contact form on my homepage if you have any questions about the contents once you've had a chance to read a bit in it. About the next installment: As it is now I'm treating myself to a...

For sure , the Speed Spitfire was not as fast as the Messerschmitt's 469 mph, but this design had very little commonality with the Bf 109: IIRC then it had a minute wing area, only around 11 sqr m and a grossly overboosted engine, while the Speed Spitfire AFAIK only had a slightly reduced wing...

OK, noted. So now answer the question. Or are you just here to disrupt?

I was thinking about this one: "What I'm learning is that the British should not have put the Spitfire into production and should have simply bought a license to produce the 109. Then they would have won the Battle of Britain....." How did you learn that by reading this thread?

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@Reluctant Poster: So are you going to answer my question or continue to dodge by posting book recommendations and changing the subject?

Interesting. That was not what I learned from writing my book and certainly not in line with its conclusions. Can you elaborate? What's that supposed to mean.