Recent content by riacrato

Yawn. Where did i say or even remotely imply that? How about you check your own objectivity towards reality before you imply.me to be a Nazi fanboy. Have your useless little debate where I'm sure the conclusion will be that meteor in the end was just as useful / useless as the me 262 in ww2...

yadayada The Me 262 was flying combat ops before the Meteor did and soon in greater numbers than the Meteor too. Whether the unit is called EKdo or JG barely matters for the fact as such. The Germans had the first useful operational jet fighter in the world. No bickering and belitteling is...

Ekdo 262 did fly combat missions with the Me 262. All other is semantics.

The Ta 183 was Multhopp's project not Tank's. As for it being a total piece of crap. Based on what? It was still in conceptual state for God's sake. We don't even know which of the three designs would've eventually been produced. Tank's Pulqui 2 has about as much to do with it as the Tunnan or...

Whereas you are of course the most neutral person to ever walk the earth.:rolleyes: Maybe Galland has a bit of a "selective memory", how do you expect a man who actually fought the war, instead of just looking back at it from 50+ years distance in a comfy chair, to stay completely neutral and...

I'd like to see the author give some evidence that the RLM "seized the opportunity of jet technology with every possible speed". Plenty of evidence points to the contrary, more or less. Greg, the Tirpitz was lost long after the leadership hoped to get a strong surface Navy, it certainly played...

If you are referring to Projekt II it has the same background. Problems were anticipated with the new jet airframes and these were the fallback solutions. Projekt II was cancelled in 1943. Desperation had nothing to do with any of it. They simply had outlived their purpose, when the Me 262...

Well he wasn't alone. Messerschmitt was also of the opinion that a single engined fighter can't be long ranged until the Mustangs appeared over Greater Germany. I guess a lot of people underestimated the effects drag has on range not only speed.

IIRC it was just a fall-back proposal by Messerschmitt in case they encountered unsolvable problems with the 262's airframe. Never pursued seriously because there was no need.

And now for my personal opinion: Ask yourself, is a bicycle with training wheels a bicycle or is it a quadracycle? *runs*

Are you a troll trying to cause another flame war or am I just getting paranoid :D ? Anyway, I suggest you search for that other thread about this topic. Pretty much everything to be said was said there. To put it as neutral as possible: Group 1 will say: On a single spar wing, one spar (the...

It is well known that the DB 605 had an oil problem through most of 1943. A problem that led to start und notleistung being blocked as a workaround an that was fixed by installing a larger oil cooler and radiatior and most of all an oil slinger to eliminate foaming. Nothing new here and I think...

The more I learn about the Flugwerk replicas, the more I wonder how representative they really are of the real thing. No criticism, it's great to see them in the air and they give a great impression and keep younger generations interested in WW2 aviation.

There was still plenty of potential for the DB605, or room for improvement, if you want to put it negatively. Especially, in the supercharger department. DB605L would probably have been the more "definitive" DB605.

Many? There were few German radials to begin with, with many being more or less direct copies of American designs of the thirties. And I don't think the fan-cooling is shoe-horned in as an afterthought when cooling proves insufficient, rather it is designed around that principle from the start...