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This recent video shows a couple of them to be in pretty good shape: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZRPGGkv684 -
marathag reacted to Geoffrey Sinclair's post in the thread Small wings/high wing loading of German fighters with.The generic story is the pre/early war RAF fitted constant speed propellers to its bombers before the fighters. According to the...
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marathag replied to the thread 1948 Israel-what combat aircraft would you pick?.IAF didn't care for the overflights, given how close some in the RAF were to their hostile neighbors at the time
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marathag replied to the thread 1948 Israel-what combat aircraft would you pick?.Accident de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito PR Mk 34 VL620,
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marathag replied to the thread 1948 Israel-what combat aircraft would you pick?.Skyraiders are nice. However, you had to deal with Egyptian, Jordanian and Syrian ex-RAF aircraft. Skyraiders would have difficulty with...
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Earlier in the thread the book 'British Cruiser Warfare: The Lessons of the Early War 1939 -1941' was mentioned. I purchased it and...
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The effect of the Treaties needs taken into account in looking at capital ship numbers because they reshaped everything. The 3 major...
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marathag replied to the thread 1948 Israel-what combat aircraft would you pick?.Less of a problem than keeping the Jumos running in the Avias they actually got. Swedes didn't seem to have operational issues with...
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marathag reacted to Shortround6's post in the thread The airplane that did the most to turn the tide of the war. with.Here again is the British making different priorities, that are certainly dumb in retrospect. Short Seaford, first flown in Aug 1944...
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marathag reacted to Shortround6's post in the thread The airplane that did the most to turn the tide of the war. with.As you know I am against this one. The few B-24s (and crews) did excellent/exceptional work and showed the utter stupidity (criminal?)...
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marathag replied to the thread Were the 15*69B cartridge a better option for early WWII fighters.Seems like the Germans didn't do enough with the Wing in going from the E to the F and G models.
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marathag replied to the thread Were the 15*69B cartridge a better option for early WWII fighters.Seems it didn't need all that thickness for the receiver and belt tray, a little bump on the top wouldn't be the end of the world, and...
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marathag replied to the thread Were the 15*69B cartridge a better option for early WWII fighters.Well, the Japanese used the 72 pound Ho-1 20mm with a 15 round magazine as a flexible gun in bombers Since the Ho-5 was belt fed, less...
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marathag replied to the thread 1948 Israel-what combat aircraft would you pick?.SAAB 21 British and US would probably not be willing to sell new, but only surplus. It's faster than the S-199, better climb rate and...
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marathag replied to the thread Were the 15*69B cartridge a better option for early WWII fighters.Or how about full sized Ho-5, with being necked down to 15mm, for being 15x94? It does make for a heavy 85lbs gun, 104 with charging...
