Recent content by iron man

Speaking as a REALLY OLD maiden fan? It's all been done. Sad but true. I saw YOUNG Bruce (in his absolute prime) on the "Beast on the Road" tour in 1982. They were second on the bill, behind the Scorpions, who were touring the "Blackout" album. I was a huge Scorpions fan and knew jack about...

Ignore the airframe issues (though they were significant) and focus on the issue of availability of aero engines. This is the crux of the biscuit; IMO.

Full "Delta" planforms are a thing of the past. For (now) obvious reasons. One has to understand/appreciate the manifold advances of basic aerodynamics which were seen in the period we are talking about. Imo? The quantum "leap" in actual "aerodynamic" design occurred between 1955 and 1960. By...

<singing> "Reduce, Re-use...Recycle aaand. Recover". <singing off> For those who don't get it... (Old Canadian Government PSA spot from the late '70's CBC...)

Ahh. The good old "ERB" (End of Runway Bomber). 757 is a beauty, served with 434 in the late '70's. The BEST Thing about the CF-116 was the fact that it ATE UP HOURS at a cheap price per hour. I lived in Cold Lake during the '70's and was there during the CF-18 transition as well. Seen it...

Going to go off the board here and pimp for one that wasn't offered up as a choice, but should have been included. My pick is the McDonnell Douglas F-101. Why? Let's look at the situation with the "prime contenders" for the ADC and TAC during the period. ADC's "cross to bear" was the F-106...

Of course you do... that's a BIG part of the ongoing relevance when people opine on the topic. The facts are the facts..."sexy" or not.

Another was the matter of USAF's SAC and their ongoing development of forward deployment facilities at Cold Lake, Namao, Fort Churchill, and Frobisher Bay (in addition to the extant SAC bases at Goose Bay (Labrador) and Harmon (Newfoundland)). It is worth pointing out the highly classified...

You've got to look at the "big picture" guys. This is the way it was in 1957, here in Canada. As I said in the other thread, there were numerous concurrent factors that played into the decision to cancel the program. Politics did indeed play a role, but not to the exclusion of other strong...

The material is my own original copy; IOW? I am the author. The truth of the matter is that we were trying to "punch" WAY "above our weight" as a nation during this period and given the other pressing burdens on the DND's budget, the Arrow was an extravagance that the nation could not...

I have another theory to add to the mix here gents...recognition issues. I'll be damned if I can remember the source, but I have read that the introduction of the Mustang in the ETO lead to many "blue-on-blue's". This due to the similarity of the P 51B/C and the Bf 109, when viewed at certain...

Here's a couple more "who was that guy" names. Hermann Balck. His exploits along the Chir River, blunting the Red Army's exploitation phase during Uranus with a single depleted panzer Division (11th) and a number of ad hoc Kampfgruppen under command, are nothing short of amazing. Hasso von...

I'd need to see some evidence that restoring a heavily bombed marshaling yard to it's full capacity is "Easy". It really depends on what is hit. What the DRB did historically was to disburse mainline/divisional classification activities to adjacent facilities, repair the ability to process...

No sh!t Sherlock... My question remains. HOW ON EARTH, with so many (ostensibly) "learned" men in control of the reins, was this obvious lynchpin overlooked? The mind boggles They knew that the feedstocks for the cracking plants had to come from the Ruhr (hard) coal fields. They knew...

No...you are not reading this right. Tooze's assessment of the effect of the 1943 RAF campaign against the Ruhr makes no statement directly concerning the production of crude/finished steel; nor does he refer to production of finished armaments for that matter. Tooze is in fact referring to...