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Most sources list the top speed of the Hellcat as 376 mph. In Barret Tillman's book he lists it as 406 mph. Supposedly the location of the pitot tube led to errors in true indicated airspeed. There is also an account of a Hellcat flying parallel to a Corsair at the same speed but the Hellcat...

So there was the possibility that 18 planes could have gone on the raid? There was enough room of the flight deck for that?

Interesting about the range data and comparison to the B-25. It still isn't as cool as the B-25.

One thing on the Doolittle raid is that there is not much information on what exact damage was caused by the raid. I have heard about the aircraft carrier but other than that they just say minimum damage. I would still like to know more about the damage inflicted from the raid. Also, isn't the...

Plus to have enough carriers for this 1,000 avengers....

They used the under the nose gun turret from the YB-40 on the B-17G so something positive came out of it.

I'm not sure how the conversation got to where it is now. Did the pope fly a P-40? ;)

Why was the DB engine inverted?

I have read about a nightly intruder over Guadalcanal that was a two engine bomber that dropped a few bombs to harass the allied troops and break up their sleep. They mention that the engine were unsynchronized which made more of a racket which is why they called him Washing Machine Charlie...

So I take it that when you switch out tanks, there is no sputtering of the engine since all the lines are primed?

I thought I read somewhere that the pilots ran their P-38s differently between the two theatres. It had something to do with the RPM and manifold pressure settings.

The problems with the Allison engines of the early P38s in the ETO are well known (either due to fuel, intercoolers or other reasons), but were the P38s in the Aleutians having any of the same problems? These were early P38 models and in a cold theatre of war.

Myth: The P-39 was a tank buster.

I'm sorry. My reply had nothing that related to AIR myths. My apologies.