Recent content by Milosh

They do fly straight when flying home to the rookery for the night.

I thought the Smith/Creek 4 Vol books were pretty good.

When the deal went south to build Merlins, Ford used the Merlin drawings as a base for the Ford engine.

Wasn't this engine based on the Merlin?

Which were an utter failure.

Memory could be fading but wasn't there a Ju88 that had a bellyful of machine guns? 12 mgs comes to mind.

Using Google Today, the no-frills assemblage of about 32 metal buildings still belongs to the National Air and Space Museum and other Smithsonian organizations, but the majority of the collection is being moved to a more modern, well-equipped location. The main preservation and restoration...

Well it was based on a racing plane.

Scones are Scottish. Biscuits are the Brits.;)

I will put this out there as a Spitfire reference source, home

The 109K required 1.98ata/C3 fuel to out perform the Spitfire. There was only a few such operational and that was for the last few weeks of war in Europe. Even then it is questionable if C3 fuel was available as the Fw190 required this fuel.

Do you mean turbocharger?

2 speed superchargers that had the engine producing it max HP at 6000ft.

The Brits were working on a turbo prop engine during WW2.

Something had to be done to help with the landing which had gotten worse. You said: