wuzak
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Déjà vu
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Need more popcorn, very large bowl, with butter.
Extra large drink please!
A ~1/5 Win/Loss Ratio would say otherwise? During the war and just after, the British Government was desperately trying to sell Spitfires to anybody with the money and they "Claimed" that Spits shot down over 7000 Enemy Aircraft. Post war, long after the dust had settled, Internet Research into actual German Loss Records showed that the true number was just over 4,000! The RAF had/has a vested interest in selling planes post war and nobody wants to buy a looser. But during the war, the RAF did publish the records from "Circuses" and Rhubarbs" as IIRC ~725 Nazi planes shot down over France for a loss of only ~500 of our brave lads. This was all propaganda, except those pesky losses, of over 500 planes per six months of operations! After all, everybody in the squadron knew so and so did not make it back, to the tune of those >500 lost! They could not lie about that, but they did in fact lie like rugs about the >725 Nazis they had killed for the MORAL of the home front.No-one said that the Spitfire was a wonder-plane.
It could, however, out-turn the Me 109, given pilots of the same ability.
Given the defects inherent in "Elliptical" wings, why would you ever consider them for high volume manufacture?Good points.
FWIW, I have no problems when people talk about Mustang's or Tempest's wing being laminar-flow.
I have no intention to slap rails for rockets on it, like it was done wit Typhoon, and it might (and might not) be too tight for ~190 imp gals internal fuel load, as it was the case for Tempest from late 1944 on.
Hopefully the new fighter does not have the problem of tail separation mid-air under high G load, like it was the case with Typhoons.
Assumption upon assumption at your part.Given the defects inherent in "Elliptical" wings, why would you ever consider them for high volume manufacture?
Given the defects inherent in "Elliptical" wings, why would you ever consider them for high volume manufacture?