Bucksnort101
2nd Lieutenant
At least they got one name right!
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KingBonita!!!
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At least they got one name right!
TO
Now that just sounds like a catwalk transsexualKingBonita!!!
Now that just sounds like a catwalk transsexual
The Airabonita looks good compared to this Grumman's alternative (ordered by the Navy at the same time as the XF4U-1) :
If I recallThe Airabonita looks good compared to this Grumman's alternative (ordered by the Navy at the same time as the XF4U-1)
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The Black Sheep wouldn't have seemed as fearsome with the Airbonita..
Pappy would have joined the Air Corps or navy instead
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That's just researchI don't understand why half of the experimental XP-?? planes the military looked at in the 1930s and 1940s looked like the were designed by Dr Seuss.
The Soviets did quite well in the P-39/P-400 and they had less training than American pilots. Don't blame the plane when it is the pilot's fault.That perhaps a good reason to get out of the AVG and back into the Marines; just in case some pencil pusher in Washington decides that the AVG should trade in their P40's for P400's.
The Soviets did quite well in the P-39/P-400 and they had less training than American pilots. Don't blame the plane when it is the pilot's fault.
The Allison in the P-39 most certainly did have a supercharger. The Bf109 is not a high altitude fighter?Ahh, but the Soviets were not going against high altitude fighters, and the P400's were used for mainly ground attack and low level patrols. That is all they could do! They did not have either oxygen or any type of supercharger or turbo charger.
I do believe the supercharger was removed from the P39, which contributed to its decrease in performance in the production model compared to the prototype, and also suffered from several hundred pounds added to it. The P39/P400 mostly excelled for the Soviets in the ground attack role, it did struggle to get up to elevation against the german fighters, but did account for itself well when in low altitude dogfights.
So what IS the difference?...which literally translates to "coverage of ground forces". Somehow that was interpreted as "support of ground forces" ...
So what IS the difference?