Recent content by Neilster

That isn't an Argus inverted V-twin in post #697. That makes things a bit harder. I wants me money back! :) Cheers, Neilster

Thanks very much for the links. And thanks Plan_D. I love those Nazi newsreels. It's great the way the Germans are always winning in them but somehow the Russians are 40km from Berlin. :rolleyes: Cheers, Neilster

Yup. That is one tough jet. Cheers, Neilster

I wasn't denigrating the people involved. Just the pony-tailed marketing "guru" called Iian. :D Cheers, Neilster

Do they say Operation Bigot or just Bigot? It's the latter because that was the security level. Cheers, Neilster

I was under the impression that Bigot was the name given to the level of security for Overlord. It was the highest possible. Cheers, Neilster

Those shoulder mounted intakes look pretty bad from a high angle of attack point of view. An important consideration though, is that with modern short range missiles, everybody gets dead real fast if it turns into a knife-fight. For that reason it's wise to not be too dismissive. Cheers...

Ahh...they'll love it. There is great pride associated with keeping older aircraft serviceable. I know from experience. I bet the guys who've spent years keeping F-14s flying are actually glad. It's a tough jet with an amazing presence and you become emotionally attached when your working...

Maybe they could do what they did to all the codenames for operations. Remember when they had cool names like Overlord, Husky and Anvil? Now we get crappy propaganda-based ones like "Iraqi Freedom" that originated not in the Pentagon but rather some advertising agency. :rolleyes: So I'm...

Congratulations Plan_D. I was a technician on fighters and aviation is an interesting work environment. If you enjoy using tools and your brain, you'll enjoy it. If you haven't used tools much, you will soon. Be prepared though. Aircraft are potentially very dangerous so you'll probably...

This is from The Arado Ar-234 Bomber sorties did not take place until Christmas Eve, when nine Ar-234Bs, each carrying a single 500 kilogram (1,100 pound) bomb, took off from a German airbase single file to attack Liege in Belgium, in support of the Wehrmacht's ground offensive then underway...

I didn't say they didn't. I was comparing the efficiency of gas turbines at high altitude to that of gas turbines at low altitude. I didn't mention piston engines in this part of my post. A fair comparison would be the DB 605 which is about 2300 mm long. Also, the jet is internally cooled...

It looks like a Cierva but not exactly so my guess would be a Focke-Wulf 30. Cheers, Neilster

I was referring to an earlier post about the detectability of Ar 234s over Britain and was not making any statement about their suitability as a bomber. Over Britain they were reconnaissance machines and according to The Arado Ar-234... When used as a reconnaissance aircraft, the Ar-234B...

Reading comments in the B-29 thread about the cool advanced technologies developed towards the end of WW2, I thought someone might be interested in this program to use trained pigeons to guide missiles. It's from.... [4.0] World War II Glide Bombs (2) ...and the rest of the site has...