Admiral Beez
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Given it's origins with the Battle, I wonder if Fairey ever considered putting a torpedo on the Fulmar? You'd need to raise the tail wheel. Sort of like the Germans and Italians....
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Given it's origins with the Battle, I wonder if Fairey ever considered putting a torpedo on the Fulmar? You'd need to raise the tail wheel. Sort of like the Germans and Italians....Now me, I'd go for a Fulmar I with the Merlin VIII plus 16 lbs boost and under fuselage bomb in 1942 as the primary dive bomber and kept the Fulmar II for fighter recce and dive bombing. Maybe even a Fulmar III with the Merlin 32 later.
Maybe if it had a Merlin 32.Given it's origins with the Battle, I wonder if Fairey ever considered putting a torpedo on the Fulmar? You'd need to raise the tail wheel. Sort of like the Germans and Italians....
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Sorry for my ignorance, what does overhead gunnery mean in this context?
Is it the one as described here:
"The "overhead" was the most fun -- starting out 500 or more feet directly above the banner, rolling over and diving to a position astern (and a little above) of the banner before firing. "
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Good point. And if the US and Britain are sueing for peace due to political pressure and it becomes basically a battle between the USSR and Germany do the Soviets still win? Probably, but I don't think it's guaranteed. So basically what I'm saying is not that the fielding of the 262 and other jets in large numbers earlier would have turned the tide but that there exists a posibiity it might have where there was zero posibiity of that after, in my estamation 42, or maybe even earlier, without them.
The Poles have more than the Luftwaffe to deal with, with the Russians invading shortly thereafter. Had some BEF and RAF units been positioned in Poland to deter Germans they'd be in a pickle facing the Soviets.Turn the tide of war? If I interpret it as 'changed the timeline of the war' then I would suggest good and capable aircraft in abundance for the neutrals In 1939/1940. If Poland, Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands would have beaten there sh!t out of the Luftwaffe, the BOB would never have happened, maybe not even the battle of France.
You gotta feel for the Poles. For many years seems like Polands main function was to serve as a highway for various oposing armys to drive across in route to get at someone else, taking Poland in the process of course.The Poles have more than the Luftwaffe to deal with, with the Russians invading shortly thereafter. Had some BEF and RAF units been positioned in Poland to deter Germans they'd be in a pickle facing the Soviets.
You gotta feel for the Poles. For many years seems like Polands main function was to serve as a highway for various oposing armys to drive across in route to get at someone else, taking Poland in the process of course.
I just benefitted from the ignore function.Poland benefited from the First World War by regaining its existence. The Second, not so much.
Can you please stop targeting a person? If you have a fight together, please do it on Facebook or the like.I just benefitted from the ignore function.
You gotta feel for the Poles. For many years seems like Polands main function was to serve as a highway for various oposing armys to drive across in route to get at someone else, taking Poland in the process of course.
I've wonder that, before, if an armistice between the West and Germany were made, including a provision ending lend/lease and other aid, would the Soviets pull out a win. Given enough foresight, would the West have wanted them to or perhaps lend/lease acquires a new customer....
I've wonder that, before, if an armistice between the West and Germany were made, including a provision ending lend/lease and other aid, would the Soviets pull out a win. Given enough foresight, would the West have wanted them to or perhaps lend/lease acquires a new customer....
24 weeks after embarking on their hopeless invasion of Russia, Germany declares war on the USA. From that moment the Germans were doomed.I've wonder that, before, if an armistice between the West and Germany were made, including a provision ending lend/lease and other aid, would the Soviets pull out a win. Given enough foresight, would the West have wanted them to or perhaps lend/lease acquires a new customer....
I've wonder that, before, if an armistice between the West and Germany were made, including a provision ending lend/lease and other aid, would the Soviets pull out a win. Given enough foresight, would the West have wanted them to or perhaps lend/lease acquires a new customer....
Get it into service before its historical Jan 1943 (three years from first 1940 Flight is ridiculous).
Fairey should have just made the Albacore a monoplane, closed hood Swordfish, same as the Hurricane is essentially a monoplane Fury or Nimrod.On the Albacore as a dive bomber, they were used as such during the build up to Operation Torch in attacking Vichy French airfields, with moderate success, but losses were suffered.