OldSkeptic
Senior Airman
- 509
- May 17, 2010
Well except when it flew in the day ... and shot down the Luftwaffe's SE fighters, at pretty much parity.....
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In the end, it had to employ the same tactics as other RAF bombers: to hide in the dark and avoid LW's SE day fighters completely.
Just referenced a book of Mine, NACHTJAGER Volume Two, by David P. Williams, BF 109's, JU-88's, HE 219's, all flying night missions until the end.
Yup. Me 262 B-1A's, and others like FW 190's, BF 110's, possibly Ta 154 A-4 Do 335 , etc.Don't forget the jets...
Still like to see some numbers.
I find it very sad that both sides of this debate cannot acknowledge greatness when they are confronted with it.
The Germans were a truly gifted nation that produced some outstanding designs and were at the cuting edge of design.
So too the british.
The Mosquito was one of those designs that deservedly earned legendary status.
How people can denigrate tru greatness is simply very sad in my opinion.
Perhaps because the "myth" has authoritative support, and is based on some fairly simple observation. Pieces of aluminum can be directly printed by a press. Each piece of wood and / or plywood must be sawn and / or bent into the right shape by a worker. Furthermore, at the end of assembly, the aluminum should be just painted, while the plywood must first be covered with glued fabric, another work that must be done by hand (and that, thereafter, makes repairs more difficult).Why does this myth keep coming around.
When they began to have trouble obtaining other materials, and when they realized that the wood, precisely because it's less capital-intensive, could be worked in laboratories less easily damaged by bombings. But this, in 1940, was completely out of the LW predictions.Wood was increasingly used for components in other German plans (eg late 109G and 109K)
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Looks like technical glitches to me and fuselage fracturing from a rough taxi sounds like a serious structural problem.
Nothing that cannot be fixed but same holds true for problems experienced by early Me-210 prototypes.
Perhaps because the "myth" has authoritative support, and is based on some fairly simple observation. Pieces of aluminum can be directly printed by a press. Each piece of wood and / or plywood must be sawn and / or bent into the right shape by a worker. Furthermore, at the end of assembly, the aluminum should be just painted, while the plywood must first be covered with glued fabric, another work that must be done by hand (and that, thereafter, makes repairs more difficult).