This is tedious, get back to your Martlets. A declaration of war is a statement that compromise is now off the table.
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This is tedious, get back to your Martlets. A declaration of war is a statement that compromise is now off the table.OK, for those that can't read a calendar, July comes after May and June. Churchill first told the cabinet he didn't want to negotiate peace in May. He then spurned Hitler's advances in June. If the World needed any proof of Churchill's determination, the Royal Navy's attack on the French Fleet at Mer el-Kebir on 3rd July wrote it large - Britain was not going to compromise.
Someone posted here the lengths the Soviets went to to make the P-39 work for them, like installing drains etc. Maybe that also included studying how it flew and how to fly it.Perhaps the Soviet pilots didn't complain because complaining could cause death by 7.62mm lead poisoning.
Yes it is very tedious, bored of this now going back to my war movies and commando comics to learn more about WW2 history, Johnny Red was a real RAF pilot right ?This is tedious, get back to your Martlets. A declaration of war is a statement that compromise is now off the table.
Someone posted here the lengths the Soviets went to to make the P-39 work for them, like installing drains etc. Maybe that also included studying how it flew and how to fly it.
Johnny Red was a real RAF pilot right ?
Thank god for that, was beginning to think i really didnt know anything !Of course he was real and every Hurricane IID was used as a fighter.
Thank god for that, was beginning to think i really didnt know anything !
The nightmare of the German military was a war on two fronts. An evil genius would be one who only fought on one front at a time, Adolf managed to be fighting on at least half a dozen in the space of 18 months, including one he was hardly aware of "intelligence" but that is not really a surprise.Yes it is very tedious, bored of this now going back to my war movies and commando comics to learn more about WW2 history, Johnny Red was a real RAF pilot right ?
The Russians were also used to planes with handling 'quirks'.
I-16s had rear center of gravity problems.
Mig 3s had rear center of gravity problems.
A few of their other planes had 'quirks' that would have never made it past flight testing in a western nation (or at least not in less desperate times).
I see you never met anyone clever enough to tell you that everyone else knows you have lost the debate when all you do is post fact-free snarks. But do go ahead and keep on showing the limits of your research, it does provide unintended amusement.
Must be a terrible burden being the cleverest person you have ever known.
All of which is completely debunked by the results the Russians managed with their P-39s. Face it, Pokryshkin was choosing the P-39 over every Allied fighter available, and that includes Spitfires and the much-hyped Yaks. And we know that's not just Russian propaganda because the Luftwaffe were reporting on him as well......The problem with P-39 was not only the high wing-loading, as the main problems of P-39 were:
A - a C.G. far too much aft , expecially in some conditions, that in every airplane is a sure recipe for disaster
B - masses too concentrated, that gave to the airplane a flawed longitudinal Moment of inertia.....
I think it's been pretty well established here that the Russians custom modified their P39s to ameliorate many of their shortcomings, which western services, for whatever reason, seemed unwilling or unable to do effectively. Apples to applanges.All of which is completely debunked by the results the Russians managed with their P-39s.
I understand that threads tend to drift (and I am guilty of this, too), but damn.Did I miss a new forum rule that every thread MUST have a discussion about P-39s, the Russians liking them and removing wing guns, and the type's CofG issues?
There's an XP-39 thread and P-39D/P-400 thread and yet here we are in a supposedly Wildcat-centric thread talking about P-39s.
Maybe the Forum should change its title to "P-39s-and-other-ww2aircraft.net"?
All of which is completely debunked by the results the Russians managed with their P-39s. Face it, Pokryshkin was choosing the P-39 over every Allied fighter available, and that includes Spitfires and the much-hyped Yaks. And we know that's not just Russian propaganda because the Luftwaffe were reporting on him as well.
All I can see is three roundels a pilot and a shadow, that camo sure works well.