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Erich said:I am finding these posts on the Spit and Dora quite interesting
am curious if you have interviewed Dora 9 pilots to get these assumptions or facts ? or is this from research through ? what books please.
If you are going by what Englishman Eric Brown has to say then it is bunk as Eric never came up agasint a Dora let alone flew one for the Luftwaffe in combat
U haven't quoted from Ospreys book have U ? arg.........
think we should definately wait for Crandalls operative book on the Dora coming out later this year or even ............eeeeeeeeek I am going to say it. Schiffers attempt at the Dora 9.
you're right about E.Brown.
although it would have been fun being in his shoes testing a/c after wars end.
Erich said:this is the reason why Osprey books are in demand............they are cheap. Some of the text is quite wrong and the WW 2 profiles esepcially for German a/c are horrid and incorrect. When the ehck did Willi Reschke release his definitve markings for his supposed Fw 190A-8 in the western front aces that he flew ? there is no known pic of his a/c, esepcially the sought after Fw 190A-8/R2. The book on the Afrika units is terrible with 8/10ths of the profiles a fantasy as well as the camo for the German nf aces another book sadly that I own. For Osprey books stick to the Napoleonics although they are trying with their elite series of US fighter ace books, the profiles again area bit loud.
A friend and I have been asked repeatedly to release our version of the SturmFw units for Osprey. We have declined...........
Glider said:Soren Can I ask on what basis you call Eric Brown a 'bloody liar'. He was British and therefore Eric a little unlikely to have flown a 190 of any type in combat. On this basis you would discount any test pilot who flew any captured foreign plane on the same basis.
However he was a test pilot who flew almost every captured axis aircraft as well as nearly all the USA and UK aircraft extensively. This gave him a unique oppertunity to compare the latest planes against one another.
In addition he did have combat experience and was a fighter pilot first and a test pilot second. Most test pilots had no combat experience although some were given limited combat experience to assist with their evaluations.
You have I take it, read his evaluation of the 190 that landed in the UK and his comparision in mock dogfights against the latest Spits. Where he is full of praise for the 190 and its abilities.
Soren, Can I end with a request that you put up your evidence that he is a liar.
Feel free to disagree with him but if you get personal, be aware that he is an acknowledged expert in his field, from all corners of the globe, and you, are not.
However his hardest, most false and most stupid critiques were not against the 190, but the 109.
However to say that he is a liar and or stupid is very rash of you. It implies that you know better than a highly experienced test and combat pilot.
You also cannot deny that he is an expert in the field recognised by other professionals and that also seems to hurt you.
So I repeat what I said. Feel free to disagree that is what these forums are about, but you are not in a position to get personal.
Erich said:Soren in Luftrwaffe cirlces of searious research Osprey titles are taboo and considered well below average. incomplete and wrong operational text, mis captioned pics still to this day. Copied scans of copyrighted photos, and on it goes. They are cheap booklets nothing more and that is why they are so popular. muach has been used from the old bogus William Greens Third Reich ww 2 a/c.
They are good for starting the fire in the fireplace. Hopefully soon they will wise up. Their campaign titles are rehash of old news that is incorrect and just recopied works from other known authors.
Erich said:i think you need to read some of my earlier postings from last year.