The Lanc did not fly a single combat mission against Japanese targets in the Dutch East Indies, New Guinie, Solomon Islands nor the small atolls in the SW Pacific. I am not aware of it flying many missions in the CBI area either
no, but that doesn't mean they didn't operate in that area, and information about them being reddied for that area has been given.............
You were quoting statistics that were in effect, mixing apples and oranges. Loss rates should be compared to the Lanc flying during the day vs the B24 and the B24 flying at night vs the Lanc
well in that case we shouldn't compare the top speeds of the Me-262 against prop driven fighters (for example), it's unfair as it's apples and oranges
Are you saying a squadron or two couldnt have been spared?
the logistics required for this wouldn't be worth it, and no, there weren't just two squadrons lying around doing nothing
And how many were being wasted on maritime patrol missions when they should have been on bombing missions.
Approximately? none. they were used for maritime patrol after the war
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size of family/no. of marks- lanc wins
irrelevant.
not quite
no one will develop a bad plane much, the better the plane, the more variants, the more planes it will spawn...........
how was the manoeuvrability with two engines shot out and only one pilot to fly the plane?
fine, on numerous test flights at full military spec with only a pilot and co-pilot, when they shut down two engines on the same side the pilots reported no difficulties in keeping the aircraft straight and level, why, how was the B-24s? oh yeah that's right, a couple of hit in the B-24s wing and it'd break off
Youre right. Since there are no statistics of the Lancs usage in the PTO, the B24 wins hands down
does anyone else here agree with that?
But the Lanc didnt fly in the PTO with its unique operationsal problems, so you just cant say if it works in the ETO, it will work just as well in the PTO
at no point have I explicitly said that's what I think, however you cannot say the opposite
why, because we don't know!
Just a matter of training and experience. Nothing US navigators couldnt handle
I never said they couldn't but getting experience took time, allot of it..........
I wonder how well they could handle bombing at night in the PTO with NO navaids.
that's like saying how would she fly without wings
you can't just take away an aircraft's advantage in order to make things equal in an argument, if they're equal no one's gonna win anyway
so you're seriously saying that the fact that the lanc had better
payload
manoeuvrability
cruising speed
payload to range
versatility (I can assure you the lanc does win this by a large margin, start a separate thread for it if you wish
)
total tonnage
tonnage per sortie
tonnage per aircraft lost
means absolutely nothing?
And yes both the flying lancs have dual controls installed, they're far too valuable not to!
