Recent content by Washing Machine Charlie

From some angles, the B-23 looks like a baby B-17.

Excellent read! My only complaint is that I will not be getting any sleep wondering who that stud in the P-39 was!

[QUOTE="Admiral Beez, post: 1510645, “No one in the West would be advocating for an armistice......” I find it hard to believe that the Germans would even consider approaching America/England with a conditional armistice, if, they didn’t have information telling them that there were some who...

I’ve wonder that, before, if an armistice between the West and Germany were made, including a provision ending lend/lease and other aid, would the Soviets pull out a win. Given enough foresight, would the West have wanted them to or perhaps lend/lease acquires a new customer....

This topic begs for computer simulation....x1000 My gut tells me that had the Japanese taken Midway, decisively ( one or less carriers sunk plus 2 or more US carriers sunk), Yamamoto would have next taken Hawaii, regardless of how ratchet an operation it would have appeared to be, then, not...

I’ve always had my suspicions that the A-9 somehow “influenced” the design of the SU-25.

“Holy Bleep!”

My love for WW2 aircraft runs the gamut, but, I am especially fond of the twin-engine strafers A-20s, A-26s, and the awesome B-25s... That being said, there is a tremendous story behind B-25 pilot Lieutenant Victor Tatelman and his planes, “Dirty Dora/Dirty Dora II. Not only did this hero...

While driving home, eating my Taco Bell, and thinking airplanes, the though occurred to me, did any changes to perhaps cams(?) or any other part of the mechanical computer controlling the B-29 guns need to be made, once, MiG-15s became targets? It seems such a radical performance difference...

Sweet, and I thought my $1.75 was a steal!

Also, to the B-29 crew’s credit, let’s not forget that a lot of the time, they didn’t have the benefit of large formations, especially flying from Saipan, which could only launch one plane at a time, at a minute or so between.. Little known fact, the B-29 was built with special seats to...

Now that is some mean nose art!

I, too, find it fascinating that such technology as video guided bombs and gunsight computers were being used so early in the war. So often, you hear about a huge jump in technology, post-war, when, it seems, a lot of things were already around, in their infancy. Now, the question that begs to...

Sorry, when you suggested a laser, I thought you were making an attempt at referencing the gun shop scene in the first Terminator movie: The Terminator: [In a gun shop] The 12 gauge autoloader. Shopkeeper: [Passes him the gun] That's Italian, you can go pump or auto. The Terminator: The .45...

Thanks!