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Isn't this what Isoroku Yamamoto tried to tell the Imperial Council when they asked him for a war plan to defeat America? He had been many years in the US and seen its resources first hand.If you have the resources to handle the losses and can impose your will onto the battlefield then you win and the other guy loses
Well at least the interviewer doesn't, and something got lost in the translation. And if you're driving a weird foreign airplane with weird markings on the gages, do you even give a flying fig for TAS? Your world is governed by IAS, the observed relative speeds of your opponents, the colored limitations bands your comrades in Technical Services have painted on your ASI, and the needle on your fuel gauge. The numbers are for engineers to consider who are not getting shot at.Hmmmm...... It is quite weird, but IMHO, Nikolay Gerasimovich and interviewer doesn't understand difference between IAS and TAS...
Well at least the interviewer doesn't, and something got lost in the translation. And if you're driving a weird foreign airplane with weird markings on the gages, do you even give a flying fig for TAS? Your world is governed by IAS, the observed relative speeds of your opponents, the colored limitations bands your comrades in Technical Services have painted on your ASI, and the needle on your fuel gauge. The numbers are for engineers to consider who are not getting shot at.
Cheers,
Wes
How many people have YOU, personally, taught to fly?? I did it professionally for years, and I'm here to tell you that if you're going to train pilots to do just a few things, and you don't have much time and resources to do it with, you don't need to "waste" time on the niceties of TAS vs IAS. These guys (and gals) aren't going to fly at high altitudes, or at night, or on the gages. At least not until they've survived the front long enough to gain a little experience.Actually, the meaning of soviet pilot training I said was hummm... "Were they learned basic aerodynamics like differences between IAS and TAS?"
Sorry, brother, I wasn't mad, and I apologise if I sounded that way to you. It's just that for some kinds of flying and some circumstances, the differences between IAS and TAS just aren't that big a deal, and if the Russian pilot involved was an experienced aviator he probably did understand the difference, but maybe didn't express it very clearly, or the interviewer didn't understand the explanation and the meaning got lost in the translation.I couldn't understand why you so angry. I apologize if I said something rude.
Ah, but it makes for a more impressive number, especially at altitude!Since landing, takeoff, and maneuver speed (at a given weight and flap setting) are constant in terms of IAS, specifying those in terms of TAS seems odd.
Yoshino was credited with 15 victories as I understand it . That number is based on admitted losses from Allied sources rather than the over-inflated claims made by the Japanese flyers themselves.
What makes you believe he only shot down 4.5 allied a/c?
Great story. But more importantly, did you claim the couch as a victory?Some of it was blatant overclaiming and some was honest mistakes in the heat of battle. Fired at plane, saw smoke and figured it was damaged/on fire.
Things can get confusing real quick.
Firefighter story, One of the first times I went in as a nozzle man we entered through the kitchen to attack a couch fire in the living room (Push fire out the front window to save the rest of the house.) Lots of heat and smoke, can't see much more than a dim glow through the smoke. I point the nozzle and open it up and give it a couple of swirls and shut down to see effect. The glow is much smaller so I repeat. Still getting a pulsating red glow through the smoke and steam so I try it again. Still getting that pulsating red glow so one more time with the water. Smoke is thinning out, glow seems to be outside the house?? I move forward and things clear up! I am looking at a police car on the lawn with flashing lights
Nobody was shooting at me either.
Couch was destroyed by fire as were curtains and molding. Wall phone on the other side of the room was melted. Scorch marks (light charing) about 3-4 feet down from the ceiling all around the room.
A few of the more well known Aces of the 80th Fighter Squadron were Major Jay T. Robbins (22 confirmed kills) and Major Richard I. Bong (40 confirmed kills). Between them, based on these '"confirmed" kills, they had managed to destroy the entire tainan AG severasl times over!!!!!!!!
According to the 80th FS history page he did.Neither Robbins nor Bong made claims against the Tainan Air Group; it was disbanded months before their first aerial victories were made. And from what I can tell Bong never served in the 80th Fighter Squadron. Can you clarify?