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You got your head around all that turn rate vs. wing span stuff yet?
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LMAO!!!!!!
Early in the war the manning selection and training was obviously from before the war started.
The Battle was withdrawn from the front line before the Battle of Britain started which is about as early in the war as the term "early in the war" can get.LMAO!!!!!!
You are displaying confirmation bias, you believe a fighter pilot to be superior to a bomber pilot, they are just different skills but equally demanding. When I get on a 747 I don't want the pilot saying "I know sod all about this lil sucker but I do aerobatics in a P-51 on weekends"Several RAF pilots - for example Billy Drake- reported intentionally screwing up some tests so they wouldn't get assigned to bombers but to fighters instead. I don't know if this continued during the Battle of Britain or not, I'm just referring to what I have heard in interviews and read in memoirs. More than one mentioned it.
Further confirmation bias, you consider a good pilot to be one flying fighters and those not good to be flying something else.You are assuming that I'm taking any position at all on bomber pilot vs. fighter pilot. I'm reporting the data, which is that some fighter pilots claimed they had to botch scores of some kind so they wouldn't get sent to fly bombers. I'd also say if true, it means that probably a lot of very good pilots died flying some of those early bombers in 1940-1942.
Further confirmation bias, you consider a good pilot to be one flying fighters and those not good to be flying something else.
Well many pilots had an idea of what they would like to do, is that proof of that being what they were best suited to do? I have read an anecdote of a fighter pilot transferred out of the BoB as a fighter pilot and survived the war as a perfectly good bomber pilot. I can look it up if you like but I may have to read Bungays "The Most Dangerous Enemy" again.Lol... are you Trolling me? I would say you are displaying your own confirmation bias here as well as poor reading comprehension. RAF pilots said that the RAF administration was placing the pilots who did best in tests into bomber squadrons. Some of these same RAF pilots themselves preferred to fly fighters so they manipulated things so that they could.
I myself did not make a value judgement on bomber pilot vs. fighter pilot in any of that. I was reporting what the pilots themselves said.
If you think I did, you should try re-reading it and assess your own confirmation bias.
Well many pilots had an idea of what they would like to do, is that proof of that being what they were best suited to do? I have read an anecdote of a fighter pilot transferred out of the BoB as a fighter pilot and survived the war as a perfectly good bomber pilot. I can look it up if you like but I may have to read Bungays "The Most Dangerous Enemy" again.
Why the qualification "just about" what is your criteria for respect and what are your qualifications to set that that criteria?I have the utmost respect for just about any military pilot, especially in WW2.
Why the qualification "just about" what is your criteria for respect and what are your qualifications to set that that criteria?
I rented a room from a guy who had a big farm house in Germany. Otto was in the equivalent of the RAF regiment, a LW soldier he served throughout the war and saw the 262 used in service do you respect him? Your respect seems to be very arbitrary.My qualifications are as greater deity of all pilots and all aircraft everywhere, from my perch on mount Cerberus high atop the underworld.
A Wirriway shot down a Zero
I am asking you to clarify what you are saying, you seem to be deflecting.Did he bequeathe you a large quantity of schnapps by any chance, and are you drinking it now?
No, I have looked back through and actually you havnt.I have answered several of your questions which seem increasingly odd today, and you don't seem to grasp what I have written. Why don't you give it a rest and if you are still curious tomorrow we can revisit it.
Out of 5. Bomber command was reluctant to release any as invasion was imminent.From how many transferred retrained?
Several RAF pilots - for example Billy Drake- reported intentionally screwing up some tests so they wouldn't get assigned to bombers but to fighters instead.
You are displaying confirmation bias, you believe a fighter pilot to be superior to a bomber pilot
You are assuming that I'm taking any position at all on bomber pilot vs. fighter pilot. I'm reporting the data
Further confirmation bias, you consider a good pilot to be one flying fighters and those not good to be flying something else.
Do you guys realize how silly this all sounds to the rest of us?Lol... are you Trolling me? I would say you are displaying your own confirmation bias here as well as poor reading comprehension.