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The P-40F and L had the Merlin and there was no significant improvement in performance at any altitude over the Allison. Donovan Berlin, the chief designer for Curtiss always said the problem with the P-40 was the air scoop in front. He did not like the modification made to the P-40k late...

Well said!

What did you use to thin that down?

At the Cinima, it has been years, but my girl Scout Troop wanted to go to see one of the Twilight movies, talk about an endurance test. At home either Casablanca or Donovin's Reef, not sure which. They are both favorites.

The story starts where Jane is first shipwrecked, and Tarzan finds her. Well after a few days Jane has had more than few peeks under his loin cloth and decides she wants some of that. Finally, one night she starts coming on to Tarzan. Nothing was working. In frustration, Janes asks, "Tarzan...

In their own way making it cheaper and easier to produce is making it better, so you are still correct. At the same time the additional production steps of a retractable landing gear would not make it easier to produce. There would need to be the additions of a control system hydraulic pump(s)...

Engines first then landing gear. Just changing engines is not always a complete answer. The most important part of any aircraft is the wing. What affect will this change have on it? Removing the nose engine means larger outboard engines to make up the power loss at takeoff. Is the wing main...

Ok, now a conversation! True the later versions of the P-40 had different bomb racks than the D through L variants, but the same wing as the P-36. It had the capability, not the ability. It was used as an example because it is a much-maligned aircraft. Then again it is hard to find direct...

Being more maneuverable than the JU-87 is not much of a stretch. Bomb load? Compared to what the fighters could carry that was not much, the P-40 could handle 1,500 pounds and some photos show even more. Two thousand two hundred pounds is not much. As far as range goes no, 418Nm (363mi...

Truth or not he did say that. Find your own source, i am tired of doing research for everyone.

Guess you are just going to have to learn to live with typo's.

Wood, Tony, Gunston Bill, "Hitlers Luftwaffe" (second printing 1978, Cresent Books), Smith, J. Richard. "Dornier Do 335: The Luftwaffe's Fastest Piston-Engine Fighter" (Classic Publications, 2007), www.century of flight.net, Schick, Walter, Meyer, Ingolf, (1997) "Luftwaffe Secret projects...

They had their prejudices also. What the Japanese did to the civilian populations in the territories they over ran, was many times worse than anything the USA did, The axis had their propaganda also, as you said it has gone on for millennia, and still happens today. The only lesson here is...

There was no way of this happening. The US had cut off sales of scrape steel and oil, this was a big point for them. Then there is the "Greater Asian Co-Prosperity sphere", they came up with. An excuse for trading Europeans with Japanese as masters of Asia and the Pacific. Though the...

They did the same.