The 51 has low drag so is fast but at 20k has around 1100 HP... so around 10% less power of a Gustav and around 20% more weight...
sure is best had a 51A that nothing (or many others fighter)
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At 20000 ft, with wing racks (those cost 12 mph, but are a necessity for the long range) P-51A makes ~390 mph.
Always assuming that the Germans oblige by sending the V1s in batches, which they often didn't.
Even those hidden in caves? Judging by the results at Watten, Wizernes, Siracourt, Marquise/Mimoyecques, and Rilly-la-Montagne, the bombers did a fairly good job, anyway, and not many of the ski-sites got away without a pounding (from the USAAF the RAF.)
And the Germans had a charming habit of firing the V2s from among the homes of Dutch civilians, so heavy bombers were banned (the only time mediums were used, it turned into a disaster,) and the hunting was done by the Spitfire XVIs with 1 x 500lb + 2 x 250lb bombs (usually,) but that was not possible until 1945.
The 51 has low drag so is fast but at 20k has around 1100 HP... so around 10% less power of a Gustav and around 20% more weight...
sure is best had a 51A that nothing (or many others fighter)
The advantage in climb is irrelevant if the attacker arrives at good altitude.
The P-51B/C/D with 184 + 150 (int + ext, 334 gals total) have had combat range (indeed, the radius) of 450 miles at 25000 ft, and 500 miles at 10000 ft, TO weight 10200 lbs. Pg. 550 at AHT.
That means all allowances are included - take off, climb to the altitude, combat (5 min on WER, 15 min on military) and 30 min reserves.
The P-51A, with 180+150 gals weighted 9600 lbs at take off, so the radius should be 500 miles.
The P-51B/C/D with 184 + 150 (int + ext, 334 gals total) have had combat range (indeed, the radius) of 450 miles at 25000 ft, and 500 miles at 10000 ft, TO weight 10200 lbs. Pg. 550 at AHT.
That means all allowances are included - take off, climb to the altitude, combat (5 min on WER, 15 min on military) and 30 min reserves.
The P-51A, with 180+150 gals weighted 9600 lbs at take off, so the radius should be 500 miles.
WER use and/or more reserve will affect this as will initial start up, taxi, take-off and early climb out (generally not done of drop tanks), some planes could not transfer fuel from drop tanks to airframe tanks, some could. I have no idea on the Mustangs except that no mention is made of it in the P-51D Manual.
Early Mustangs had a reserve setting in the fuel tank ( much like a motorcycle gas tank) that held a number of gallons in reserve.
For keeping the speed high (manouvering) you need power.
Back on my former reply, with i writed Gustav i thinked the early G-2/4. The italian opposition were main C. 202 the series 5 fighters were from very rare to uncommon...
No, they're running between the mainspar, and the ammunition boxes, which allowed some of the warmth to reach the boxes, by passing in front of them, and they also acted as an extra line of defence, for the ammunition, from gunfire in front. It was found that heat directed straight onto the Browning gun breeches could cause "cooking-off" of the .303" ammunition, so it was better to warm the whole gun compartment.The heating tubes going in the area between the spars, starting from the radiator/intercooler (shaded tubes at at attached picture). I presume the installation of the wing tank dictated that?
Not if they're having to mount standing patrols, just in case, which is what did happen. At the speed of the V1, pilots couldn't sit on the ground, waiting; they had to be available, at a minute's notice, to go for the bombs which got through the gun belt on the coast, then do their interception in the space of around 60 miles, before they were forced to break off, to avoid running into the London balloon belt.I'm not assuming that Germans will oblige. If Germans send the V1s piecemeal, the easier task for defender.
You can't have large bombers wandering about the French countryside, just on the offchance of finding a target, and Harris had other uses for them, Try hitting a railway line, from the average height of a heavy bomber; as someone said, it's like trying to stick a dart in a pencil line, from 20 feet.From production lines, through transport channels/lines, up to the launching sites - with LW overstretched or blunted, and Allied AFs in even better shape than historically, the Allied bombers have free reign to make even a bigger dent on all parts of V1 production use chain.
As far as is known, no V2 was ever hit by the Spitfires, but it's reckoned that a lot of launches were probably aborted, due to the Spitfires flying overhead; the Dutch were delighted to see (and hear) them.No doubt Spitfires were capable machines, maybe even more than it was realized during wartime. Tanks for the tidbit.
You can't have large bombers wandering about the French countryside, just on the offchance of finding a target, and Harris had other uses for them, Try hitting a railway line, from the average height of a heavy bomber; as someone said, it's like trying to stick a dart in a pencil line, from 20 feet.
the bombers didnt wander around the countryside but my dad told me it wasnt uncommon to see the germans launch them off when they saw a large bomber formation coming towards them. he said it was like they were afraid the bombers were after them but they never went after the launch sites...
As far as is known, no V2 was ever hit by the Spitfires, but it's reckoned that a lot of launches were probably aborted, due to the Spitfires flying overhead; the Dutch were delighted to see (and hear) them.
did any spits "tip" them???