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MMike Williams replied to the thread Small wings/high wing loading of German fighters.I think you overstate your case. 151 Sqdn. Operations Record Book, 14 April 1940: "Hurricane R3310 with Rotol Airscrew flown from No...
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MGentlemen Attached is a report on the ditching characteristics of a 1/9 scale model P-38 conducted by the Air Material Command with...
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MMike Williams reacted to ThomasP's post in the thread Small wings/high wing loading of German fighters with.Pre- and early-war the UK designed its fighters (in particular) and also most of its bombers to be able to take off from shorter...
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MMike Williams reacted to buffnut453's post in the thread The real combat history of the Ki-43 with.I have no "palpable outrage." I'm simply calling out your oversimplification of basic tenets of air combat and your overzealous...
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MMike Williams reacted to buffnut453's post in the thread The real combat history of the Ki-43 with.No it's not. Look at the entirety of the statements made. There is nothing factually incorrect about the statement "During...
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MMike Williams reacted to ThomasP's post in the thread Was Operation Pedestal a greater Axis air attack than any faced by the USN in 1942? with.re the high roll rate(s) attributed to the P-40 As mentioned in the excerpt from 'America's Hundred Thousand', the 135°/sec roll rate...
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MMike Williams reacted to ThomasP's post in the thread Was Operation Pedestal a greater Axis air attack than any faced by the USN in 1942? with.Apparently, for the average pilot strength (50 lbs side force on the stick for 3 seconds) the Hurricane could roll at ~30°/sec at 400...
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MMike Williams replied to the thread Ki-84 vs P-51 engagemants 1945.Franks were claimed, see attached for example:
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MMike Williams reacted to Shortround6's post in the thread Was Operation Pedestal a greater Axis air attack than any faced by the USN in 1942? with.The equation assumes that things are equal. If not, like Plane A is valued at a 10 and Plane B is valued at 11 things need adjusting...
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MPAT303 is correct. That Seafire photo shows a P-40 89-gallon drop tank acquired from the RAAF for use with the BPF. See photos for...
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MNo.II(AC) Squadron Royal Air Force, 24 July 1942, press day for 50 members of the UK and Allied press to make the offical announcement...
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MMike Williams replied to the thread Was Operation Pedestal a greater Axis air attack than any faced by the USN in 1942?.Context from Squadron records: 607 Squadron - Spitfire VC 15 January, 1944 2 HAMPs destroyed. 1 HAMP probably destroyed. 6 HAMPs...
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MMike Williams reacted to RCAFson's post in the thread Was Operation Pedestal a greater Axis air attack than any faced by the USN in 1942? with.One reason that the Spitfire arrived late in Australia and Burma was the fact that the USAAF in the ETO/MTO had priority for delivery of...
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MMike Williams reacted to tomo pauk's post in the thread "All of Vlad's forces and all of Vlad's men, are out to put Humpty together again." with.Another ship turned into a submarine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdNxxCU9RJQ
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MMike Williams reacted to buffnut453's post in the thread Was Operation Pedestal a greater Axis air attack than any faced by the USN in 1942? with.Again, you're trying to draw general conclusions from a very small sample set. Just because a Hurricane never intercepted a Ki--46...
