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I might be wrong but I think I read somewhere that the 109 could lose its wings in combat in very tight turns if one wasn't careful at least in the early models. Is this so?

That's something I wanted to ask. What was the big deal with the 37 mm in the P-39? Like I read in here and other places this 37mm was a poor weapon. Was this the first production a/c to use a weapon of this size? Can someone explan.:confused:

Udet, by having guns under director control hopefully you engage the most threatening target and quickly destroy it and move to the next etc, etc. Yes you can have more targets then you can engage but it's something like take as many with you as you can. The later AA guns on US ships had local...

Gentlemen, having a large number of guns does not mean effective protection. You must have directors. They had guns but no fire crontrol. The Atlanta Class CL AA cruisers had the same problem with their 5" guns. They had 16 guns but only 2 directors. Unless mounts went into local control they...

I didn't mention I'm also interested in aircraft crash, rescue firefighting.

Hello everyone. I'm Richard. I've been interested in military aircraft since I was a kid, I think because my dad was career air force. He was also in the navy so I like ships. Anyway I looking forward to learning things here that aren't found in books or on tv.