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But how well can they fight in real war when every soldier has been told that they are basically allowed to disobey every order they...

Years ago Martin van Creveld (Israeli military historian) wasn't particularly impressed with Bundeswehr training and ethos. Today he is...

The DB 605A in Finnish service definitely had the TBO listed as 100 hrs and references indicate that not a single engine reached that...

Excellent stuff!

Very interesting info! So it seems the trouble was concentrated on one specific part.

The DB 605A had a TBO of 100 hours. Any figures for the Jumo 205? Offhand I don't remember whether the 205 had pistons cooled with oil...

In many books it is claimed that Jumo 205 had reliability issues in the Do 18/Bv 138. But in none of the books so far I have seen...

The Avweb article gives reasoning that is the exact opposite which have been observed with especially fully-synthetic oils optimized for...

It would be interesting to test modern fully-synthetic oils in these engines, especially those intended for high-performance diesels in...

A few comments: 1. Where are the stories of "bad Typhoon wing" coming from? The Tempest has only marginally higher Critical Mach Number...

To avoid lead fouling, the engines should have been run at high power for a few minutes every now and then.

Coring may refer to "oil coring" which is simply that the oil congeals (due to very cold conditions; WW2 motor oils were a far cry from...

It seems that precise rate-of-roll testing was not done in many countries at that time, including the Soviet Union. E.g. no accurate...

The doc says that between December 1941 and May 1942 the Sabres averaged 340 hours between failures. That is much better than what the...

Also the P-61 had a critical rpm range to be avoided. The PN data suggests nothing out of order, but the maximum allowed cylinder head...