this is really the key comment. They didn’t make this stuff because they couldn’t. A handful of wonder jets they could do. Some terror rockets. Tens of thousands of sophisticated shells? No hope. They didn’t have the raw materials. They didn’t have the factories. They didn’t have the...
Adding lightness is difficult. Add it incorrectly and you are just creating weakness. Given the forced labor and late-stage losing the war syndrome it seems unlikely they could have done it.
Seen various references to the jet program being impacted by quality issues. It really can’t be...
Shoving a lot of air, and a powerful engine needs a lot of air, through a small frontal area creates a lot of drag. It also isn’t going to work well if there isn’t a lot of air, such as climbing at slower speed.
I replaced the air cooled flat 4 in my Vanagon with a water cooled inline 4. About the same displacement and nearly double the horsepower. HP correlates to heat and you have to do something with that heat. I could have gotten the same power and stayed air cooled, but it would have been more...
I have been floating around in a US Navy ship around Hawaii. The Pacific is very big. Going to be hard for the Japanese to find them. Do they really want to be on the wrong side of Oahu looking?
Weird error in this article. Is says 200 kph is 1250 mph, off by a factor of 10. Seems like something that should have been caught. Also what are the dates for all this alleged work?
Finally “pick-a-back”? Is that a regional term?