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Oh, boy. All the best of luck there, Bill.

I so wish I could watch this live.

The author of that thread may be somewhat partisan. He is no longer with us and I will not say more than that. I have used a US baseball...

Japanese also anticipated the need for 2000 HP engines. Due to their engine companies indeed playing catch-up, they started making the...

See this manual here. It contains the different graphs of penetration for the German guns, including the MG 151/15.

V-1710 story is even today a matter of misunderstanding. Stipulating about an undated letter that one saw, as well as repercussions (or...

Thanks for the reply. You will hopefully understand that my suspicion meter is still in the red area.

For comment. home Version 1, a few disclaimers and mark definitions etc. to come.

Only counting the Ki-49 for the bomber role of the Ha 41 ;) To me, the distinction between 'bomber' and 'fighter' engine is very...

Ha 104 was just under 950 kg. So was the Merlin ;)

The US perception of Japanese industry was skewed by the importation of large amounts of cheap Japanese "tin" toys in the period between...

Over-speed limit for dives, noted as allowed just for 30 seconds? Similar for 3180 rpm for the V-1650-1 limit, or 3100 rpm dive limit...

Ha-43 never flew in combat. Experimental BMW 801F was making 2900 rpm, the 'normal' Bristol Hercules was sometimes pushed to 2900 rpm...

And that's an understatement. The intellectual damage done by many American and British authors in the 20th century when describing...

You will hopefully forgive my eyebrows raising when Greg of Youtube is mentioned ;) The only high-rpm Japanese engine I'm aware was...