Recent content by Salim

Hello all. I was reading about aerial refueling and it's history, and though this isn't the first time I've done so, it was just now that I started to think... what if aerial refueling had been done during World War 2? If so, what would have been the effects of it? I've read that aerial...

Same here guy, I'm gonna publish it on Sffworld.com! :D Good luck. Email me sometime and maybe we can get together to exchange information and ideas. :) There's a lot to say about the Buffalo, but there's two main points to make. 1: The Finns solved many problems that troubled the Buffalo...

Thank you for your answer. :)

Yeah, I'd definately like to take a look at this field. What kind of radio sets did they put on the fighter airplanes? What was their range? I own a book about Japanese Naval Aviators in from 1937-45, and I what I saw was interesting on the wireless telegraphs and radio telephones used. It...

OK fellas, one quick question. What if the engine powering the P-39 was powered by an engine 15% stronger? As in, a 1350 hp powerplant? Since the additional power would probably help offset some of the performance degradation of the added armor and weapons. What do you think would have...

Yeah, the production model would have probably have been slower, but still. That airplane had a lot of potential. If given a chance, the guys at Bell would have probably made it perform like the P-63 by the time America entered the war, and this would have given the US a decent advantage in the...

Well, I've been doing some thinking, and in all honesty I should have made a thread like this months ago, but I never got to it. Regardless, I'll start. As we know, the P-39 was scorned by many for it's lack of high altitude performance, a dangerous tendancy to spin and a myraid of other...

And Naval Aviation in general. :)

Not just that, but after the massive carrier battles of 1942, the IJN didn't want to risk any of its carriers in such duels again until it was strong enough once more. Of course, by 1943 the American Essex class fleet carriers and Independance light carriers were operational, making things even...

Ahh, yes, I know about the south and southwest pacific. But you need to remember the central pacific (Marshall and Gilbert islands, anyone?) as well as the Marianas and various other opening battles in the Philipines area and Formosa (Taiwan) and of course, towards the end of the war, US and...

Good day again. I was reading up on the Japanese Naval and Army air services during the second world war and I what I read was generally interesting. The IJN was definately the best trained and most efficent air arm in the world at the time, though their lack of planning for a long war and...

Thanks. :) Anyway I do have some reasons for asking questions such as this, I guess I should probably reveal what they are soon. :)

Hmm, I guess Russian fighters aren't as good as I thought they were...

Check this link out http://www.chuckhawks.com/mig-3.htm It's very true that if the US and the UK had Russian fighters they wouldn't have been able to send their fighters to attack targets far off or to escort heavy bombers into Germany, but I'm not talking about the strategic level of things...