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    With regard to the Aug 1925 meeting, Michele Consetino wrote this in an article in Warship 2015 titled "The Bonfiglietti Project: An...
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    Interesting writeup on the various plans for carriers for the Italian navy during the interwar years and WWII, including some hybrid...
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    Atmospheric pressure is 14.7psi at sea level, 6.67psi at 20,000ft, 5.46psi at 25,000ft, and 4.37psi at 30,000ft. On a Merlin Mustang or...
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    z42 replied to the thread Alternative German tanks & AFVs.
    I'm sure anyone who has done some form of military service can recognize that in military life there's a lot of "hurry up to wait", and...
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    A lot of times, Germans made a bad choice, not just wrt. their engine program and what engine goes into what airframe. For example, as...
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    There were also the ways to improve the BMW 801 installation on the Fw 190. Going with the external air intakes was tested already by...
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    Not true. Tanks are not constantly on the move. In fact they spend a lot of time idling waiting for the enemy to show up. There is also...
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    I doubt you and I are the only people who look at an LHD and think carrier.
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    One aspect that I think should be emphasized re this topic is that the design can be from the keel up - ie we do not need to think in...
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    My understanding is that WWII era carriers tended to have a lot of the armor weight in the flight or hangar decks, with relatively weak...
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    Fair enough. I was thinking in of an LHD being a sort-of hybrid carrier in terms of having both a big flight deck as well as the docking...
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    Italy and France had navies big enough that they could have built carriers (France did, and Italy tried although too little too late) at...
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    Biggles shots 3, Ginger, Lacey and Bertie 1 each.
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    Have Glorious’ five operational Swordfish on deck, torpedo-armed and fueled, with their crews and engines on five minute readiness...
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    Reading through some of the stuff posted above mixing MAC ships with anything up to battlecruiser conversions, and the emphasis on the...
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