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The major physical problem with the two-seat conversions was the alteration of the center of gravity of the parent single seater. That Germany utilized trainer conversions was indicitive of the need to train pilots at a greater rate than her standard Luftwaffe course syllubus would allow. One...

Operational testing of the Me-309 began at the Reichlin Erprobungstelle on November 20, 1942 test session piloted by RLM test pilot Beauvais. Beauvais included the following statements regarding the Me-309 in his report.: "The Me-309 will be acceptable after some improvements but the present...

I would not measure the efforts of the Australian's on the basis of kills scored on their own behalf. Were it not for the presence of the land that is Australia the Allied effort would have been hard pressed to find safe areas to organize an effective strike. Charter Towers, Darwin, the ports...

A massive and life-long argument began between Drs. Messerschmitt and Lippish regarding the design path the Me-163 should take apon acceptance by Messerschmitt's for serial production. Lippish was adament that a constant stream gas turbine replace the powerplant designed for the aircraft, a...

I believe the name you are looking for is Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. The entire opening moves of WWII in the Pacific were the work of him and Count General Hisachi Terauchi. Two men planned all operations for the first two months of operations, agreeing to the plans at a Joint-Session meeting of...

One aircraft carrier, a BB, the Washington and several cruisers were poised along the Russian convoy routes in order to counter the expected appearance of the Tirpitz. She never showed, the majority of the campaign was conducted by the U-Booten and the Luftwaffe. The Marines, being the...

We sent a skyful of P-40's to the VVS, along with other major warbird types. The figures on kills losses and reasons why are located at : Lend-Lease on airforce.ru Regards

The mention of Vice Admiral Lyster, here, is an attempt to acertain what level of knowledge the RN had of German aviation developments as the V-1 or V-2. Not a great deal of RN input into the process, other than the pick-up and removal of scrap launched from Peenemunde and recovered by the...

Extract from Vice-Admiral Lumley's report of 15th September, 1942 regarding the aquisition of heavy land-based aircraft for use by Coastal Command. In the first part of any war new methods and new weapons which had been under development are pushed on to the production stage. After a...

In answer to your post #4, this from a Canadian site: "The average operational - cruising speed, with bomb-load, of the Lanc at 15,000 feet was about 180 m.p.h. I.A.S.; for the Halifax, it was a little better. However, above 18,000 feet the Lanc had the edge. The Lanc also over-took the Hally in...

For an interesting speed differential you might want to compare the Heinkel 219 speed range to the already mentioned 200 mph formation cruise speed of the Lancaster heavy bomber. Wikipedia, or a perusal of William Green's texts on German aircraft, will give you what occured on occasion when one...

Refering back to the NACA reports mentioned earlier on this Lateral Control thread. : Summary of Lateral-Control Research NACA-TR-868 Summary of Lateral-Control Research NACA-TN-1245 Lateral Control by Spoilers at the DVL NACA-TM-1307 These reports, though post-dating the...

Speed brakes became an active area of aerodynamic research in the Luftwaffe after the initial CIC, Wever, dying in an aborted take off of his He-70 and the succeeding CIC, Kesselring, assuming the formation of the Luftwaffe. The importance of all aircraft accepted as bomber, save for the...

Colonel Paul I. "Pappy" Gunn (October 18, 1899 - October 11, 1957) was a former U.S.naval aviator known most for his actions in the Second World War as an officer in the United States Army Air Forces. His civilian aircraft did not survive a sustained incounter of much of the Low-Pressure air...

Check out the Mig Staggerwing Canard Pusher. Several of these ac were used as squadron liason aircraft. Regards