Recent content by mhuxt

So, I’ve been mis-spending my middle age compiling Mosquito databases and other similar time-wasters. For a variety of reasons, these now do little good just sitting on my hard-drive, so I’m spamming the internet to give them away to anyone who may be interested. I’ve used DropBox – I’m told...

I'm not saying he faked the whole episode. I'm saying his target recognition was faulty, as is his recollection, written well after the war, of what happened to the aircraft he was attacking. His memory is further faulty in having "mixed" his episode with the Goering speech Mossies, perhaps...

Heheh, no. I really don't know much about Lancs at all.

Many of you will have heard of or read Heinz Knoke’s “I Flew for the Fuehrer”. One of the incidents he relates is his victory over a Mosquito on 6 November, 1942. The book was written some years after the war ended, and Knoke was going by memory. Problem with his story is, no Mosquito was lost...

I'm just staggered at how those guys don't foul their lines, or plow into one another or the ground. I guess that's why they're at the Nationals.

Hmmm, zipped it.

Damnit - will try to upload both as a single zip. Works once for me, then Access Denied.

Give them a try now please, have re-uploaded, they work for me.

I thought these were working - couple of debriefs from Axthelm, one has some info on the double-fuse. When I click on the pdf links, my system asks me if I want to download, when I choose download they both open correctly on my machine...

meh

I can see that bomber gunners would have had a challenge with aircraft flashing past, that's clear. A lof of friendly fire though seems to involve an initial faulty assumption / decision at long range, which is then carried through even at closer range when more info is clearly available, but is...

There were a number at night - Bob Braham springs to mind as having accounted for a couple of notable NJ aces, and in a Beaufighter at that.

I read Lorant's JG 300 recently - at one point it says the commander of the Berlin flak said he'd pooped off 20,000 rounds at a couple of Mossies over Berlin some time in summer '43, without success. Rather a breathtaking stat, especially given how often the Mossies were over the Big City.

Hi Greg, it's post #41, the one you bacon'd me for (thanks). The graphs show that by the Germans' own calculations it would not have been possible for C3 to have had 116% of the performance number of 100/130 at rich mixture.

Milosh, the Germans tested captured fuels against their own C3 and B4, across the whole range of rich/lean mixtures - see the attachment on my post above for how the octane numbers compared according to the Germans' own research.