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wow chill out dude. You're putting things in my mouth that I never said (or would say). Now don't go ballistic and consider what I said. The Ta-183 project, materials, documentation and even some of the engineers working on it was captured by the soviets. They put it all through intensive...

Grrrr "server busy" again, and double post again...really, the "server busy" thing is starting to get into my nerves...

there weren't enough allied squadrons over PM at the time. Numbers also count when trying to establish air superiority ,not just aircraft quality. However, you'll note, while the Allies didn't hold air superiority over PM, neither did the japanese at the time. It was a consant contest...

only the propeller. Structure was pretty much intact otherwise. But we're turning circles here, so I'll stop it just by saying that every test done on the Zero showed the same characteristics at high speed and stiffening at similar speeds. Which means it was an attribute of the model as a whole...

Oh, BTW; do you --REALLY-- want me to go through the pain of going to every home page of each of the fighters list I gave, in order to give you a link so you can double check my data on order dates?... come on, man, you can check in any book you own on american planes. Is late and I hate to...

of the reports I posted only one had performance problems, the A6M2 tested against the P40 and P43 which, for unknown reasons, could only attain 2050 rpm. However control issues had nothing to do with the engine, so that can be sided. Of the rest of the tests, well the Alleutian zero was (and...

Well, they had a very good range. So they could get farther before failing to establish any kind of air superiority against a bunch of inferior planes (on paper) as the F4F and P39s (a-la-Guadalcanal). Or even worse, they could get farther before getting shot out of the sky by the same planes...

ARGH! multiple post again...server load problems are really haunting me today!

Further information about the Thatch Weave and it's pre-pearl harbor nature. The veracity of the claim that it was actually developed by Chennault and the AVG is a good matter of debate, as some sources say that the AVG's "weaving" techniques were different from Thatch Weave, while others say...

I have read reports by the japanese, perception varies slightly between pilots. As far as I can recall, noone gives speed numbers when talking about the Zero control stiffening. Yet you have a report here that gives those numbers. I'm not going to force you to accept evidence, Flyboy. I'd...

part by part: Re. the Oscar. I don't know that plane enough, but I've read persistent accounts of their structural weakness. I'm not saying one turn at 4G would shed its wings. However after some hours of flights the structure would be weakened if enough of them were asked from the airframe...

argh, error 500 then server busy and now doble post. Really nice, lmao. someone delete this, please :D

nope, that's the point where the cementing got past the point of making the plane almost unmaneouverable in a fight (rolling at 300mph was almost impossible because of frozen ailerons...no roll ability equals to me to be unmaneouverable in a fight). The plane was really hard to fly much before...

hey, there actually were nuclear powered prototypes flying during the 50s and 60s!...so be careful because he might take your word! :D

Seems like an interesting book :) The last one seems like a mechanical nightmare made true. I, at least, would've never wanted to be part of a design team trying to make that configuration work at all.