Recent content by J.D.

Thank you, gents. If you're interested in this stuff it's worth having a play with Airfoil Tools.

Hi all. First post here. I thought some might be interested in this. I took a few well know allied fighters to compare their wing sections and found quite a deal of variation. There are nominally 'fast' aircraft with thick sections and 'modern' designs packing older sections. The aircraft I...

My vote goes unequivocally to the Hellcat. From Wiki: Grumman F6F Hellcat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It doesn't say it in the article but it provided around 70% of USN kills. Combined with the Marines, who generally used F4Us, it doesn't look quite so good but still accounts...