Burmese Bandit
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- Dec 5, 2008
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In that caseThey were expecting higher speeds than you, 510 mph at altitude
(completely ignoring American production, the British) had a dozen (12) aircraft factories employing more than
10,000 people (and two of these employed over 25,000). The Germans had only (4) four, the largest employed
14,000 people, a big chunk of whom were slave laborers...
Bronc
nitpicking here but doesn't Fokker belong to the foreign factories taken over by Germany??Fokker (Dutch but built German aircraft during WW2, utilizing many factories)
Weser Flugzeugbau GmbH (Berlin, Bremen, Liegnitz, Hoykenkamp and Lemwerder)
This list also does not include the numerous Foreign factories that the Germans took over and utilized in occupied countries.
In that case
wouldn't it likely have gone even faster without the recip? At those sort of speeds, the prop disc (and I'm talking about a production-line WWII fighter here, not a 21st century one-off Reno racer) is just getting in the way not to mention the added weight of the piston powerplant.
Won't there also be an unwelcome demand on resources for two types (or grades) of fuel?
Which just shows there was a large level of dispersion.Oh, and I think you misread Bronc's post. He probably meant the Germans only had 4 factories utilizing over 10,000 workers...
Kris
nitpicking here but doesn't Fokker belong to the foreign factories taken over by Germany??
Civettone said:Oh, and I think you misread Bronc's post. He probably meant the Germans only had 4 factories utilizing over 10,000 workers...
Kris
I don't think so, in 1939, Fokker had a few locations in the Netherlands and had a factory in the US. I don't believe they made that many German a/c either, apart from the T.8 and the G.1. They did however do a lot of maintenance and part-jobs for the Germans.You are probably correct, I should have included it in the foreign ones. I think I used it because I believe they had a factory inside the German border as well (not sure on that though).