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Add to Stuka a fighter escort of Hartmmanns Karaya Staffel and in that case Yaks would be dead meet.
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And I suppose those fighters stopped all the incoming VVS fighters??? The loss listings for Stukas in Russia is staggering to say the least.... They didnt all go down from AAA....

As far as the 129B goes, it is one of my very favorite aircraft, although the problems it had with the underpowered engines takes it off the Best Of List... Why they decided to use those damn French pieces of sh!t engines still baffles my mind..... I know they wanted to keep the DB engines for the 109 line, but comon.....

They had in their possession the best tank buster of the War and ruined it by underpowering it....

The 75mm gun was just too much for it to fly effectively... Many pilots died in it, even though u could jettison it in emergencies...
 
Is it true that Hs 129Bs cockpit was so small that some flight instruments were located outside on the engine nescelle?

I heard that somewhere but it just sounds strange.
 
As far as the 129B goes, it is one of my very favorite aircraft, although the problems it had with the underpowered engines takes it off the Best Of List... Why they decided to use those damn French pieces of sh!t engines still baffles my mind
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Because the Luftwaffe never procured a compact and lightweight air cooled twin radial similiar to the R-1830. You are stuck with either the BMW132 single radial or the monster size and weight BMW801 twin radial. Why didn't the Luftwaffe order the R-1830 to be produced under license from the mid 1930s onward?
 
I thought so. And the gunsight too. Actually I have read about it in several books but never found any pictures to see it and it allways seemed to me strange. (I mean pictures of flight instruments on the engine nescelle, becouse gunsight is visible in front of windscreen on many pictures.)

Not that Germans were not known by making airplanes with small cockpits. Take Bf 109 as example.

As for engines, I think that prototype and Hs 129A were powered with Argus engines same as Arado trainers or Fw 189. Talk about underpowered ground attack airplane in that case.
 
Dave,

You know, that's a good question.
I was going to state that the Hindenburg died before engine production started, but I found that just the opposite is true.
Even during The Great War, Germany never seemed too interested "round" engines.
Except for the Eindecker and the Tridecker, everything's an in-line with them.
I know part of the reason for WWII is that Hitler felt agitated at the way Germany was treated after The Great War, so maybe his propensity was not to use designs from one of those countries.

I don't know. Just speculation. That is an interesting observation, though.



Elvis
 
Bramo 323 Engine
Bramo 323 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Length. 1,420mm
Diameter. 1,388mm
Weight. 550 kg.
1,000 hp
5,500 engines produced.

P&W R-1830 Engine
Pratt Whitney R-1830 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Length. 1,500mm
Diameter. 1,220mm
Weight. 567 kg
1,200 hp.
173,618 engins produced.

The P&W R-1830 produces 20% more HP yet is significantly smaller in diameter. Compact size is important for a small aircraft like the Hs-129.

Most German aircraft manufacturers preferred the obsolecent BMW132 over the Bramo 323. That says a lot about mechanical reliability, ease of maintenance and other such things that aren't apparent in the statistics.
 
Dropping canisters filled with thickened gasoline (i.e. napalm) is a WWII innovation. However thickened gasoline was invented during WWI for use in flamethrowers. It's also used in Molotov cocktails and various improvised flame devices. Very simple stuff to make.
 
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