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fixed it for you.while the YFM slid into well deserved obscurity.
Thank you!fixed it for you.
Should you find the time and desire to read what was posted on this forum about the P-40, you will see that it received a fair shake here, to say at least.
To be fair to Tom, in unschooled circles, the P-40 was long considered a dog, not because it was one, but because it labored under unfair comparisons and/or selective readings. I myself long thought of it as mediocre at best until I started reading more about it.
I myself consider the P-40 as a fighter that was there for the Allied cause in the time when the Allies were stretched thin. When flown in it's best altitude band (as determined by the engine it used), it was a dangerous opponent. Say, good, if not ideal fighter?
Too bad it never gotten more modern engines.
It was MADE for a shark mouth. We were all thinking it.
All this discussion has made me dizzy. I see hoards of B-18s flying towards the enemy's land escorted by Bell YFM-1s. I shall take a beer break.
I assumed by that exercise that we were being punked.*said
That's pedantry.
I know taste is taste, but in my eyes that's one of the things the Bf 110 could do well.A shark-mouth just doesn't look right on any other airplane, to my eyes.
I know taste is taste, but in my eyes that's one of the things the Bf 110 could do well.
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And that is why the Rumanian ones performed so poorly. The Rumanians specified a cast iron, coal fired heater much like the British did on the P-3______ (must not be named)Hey boys - a quick post and a turd in the punch bowl, and VASCO correct me if I'm wrong but the early -110 did not have cockpit heaters, later ones had provisions for heated suits.
And that is why the Rumanian ones performed so poorly. The Rumanians specified a cast iron, coal fired heater much like the British did on the P-3______ (must not be named)