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Heck, they might not even need a carrier. It also took 2 weeks to repair U.S.S Yorktown at Pearl after the Coral Sea action. I'm thinking of a new thread:Wow...sixteen B-52s?
There would have been little left of Tokyo if that were the case: each Buff can carry about 70,000 pounds of bombs x 16 = (roughly) 1,120,000 pounds of bombs raining down in one pass...
Not to worry: that much weight would sink the carrier!Wow...sixteen B-52s?
There would have been little left of Tokyo if that were the case: each Buff can carry about 70,000 pounds of bombs x 16 = (roughly) 1,120,000 pounds of bombs raining down in one pass...
*if* B-52 could fit on a carrierNot to worry: that much weight would sink the carrier!
*if* B-52 could fit on a carrier![]()
In the late 80s I was living in West Germany. A German I knew repeated some war stories from his father. One such was that the German soldiers called the P-38 "Mann Jäger" (man hunter), because P-38 pilots were willing to strafe solitary soldiers caught out in the open. I assumed this was due to the P-38's nose guns not needing a convergence point.Not sure if it is the greatest myth busted but one of my favorites...
The Germans called the P-38 the Fork Tailed Devil.
A former co-worker (from many years ago) used the same term for the P-51, too.In the late 80s I was living in West Germany. A German I knew repeated some war stories from his father. One such was that the German soldiers called the P-38 "Mann Jäger" (man hunter), because P-38 pilots were willing to strafe solitary soldiers caught out in the open. I assumed this was due to the P-38's nose guns not needing a convergence point.
Planes with the RR Merlins had to drive on the wrong side of the runway.
This is why I enjoy this forum. Simple explanations that even I can understand.No no planes with Merlin's drove on the right side of the runway, which is of course the left. Packard's drive on the wrong side which is the right side. See it's simple.
No chance pre-decimal Britain used metric measurements on their engines, IMO. They would have likely used incompatible Whitworth tooling.I haven't been here in a few days and come back to find you guys have let me down. I saw the discussion about RR vs Packard and couldn't wait to find the TRUTH about the two versions of the Merlin.
1) The US version used imperial measurements while the Brit version used metric.
2) The RR had all the bolts reverse threaded compared to the Packards, so they had to be turned the "wrong way" to be installed.
3) Because all the bolts were backward, the propeller shaft spun the other way, so planes with the RR engines had to have their propellers put on backward.
4) Planes with the RR Merlins had to drive on the wrong side of the runway.
(Sorry, that's all I could think of on such short notice. I'm sure some of you guys will help me out with the rest.)
-Irish