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Respect the former member! He can not answer to you!!!! That s elementary behavior !
controversial....Seafires in 1945, in the pacific, opperating from the fleet carriers, had a staggeringly high accident rate
One of my favourites....no tigers were knocked by the Allied AT fire in the whole of Normandy. They all ran out of petrol or were otherwise just abandoned.
I believe that one was started by one of our very own former members.....try and guess which one...
There is some basis to this:
The 17 pounder could under no circumstances penetrate the frontal armour of the Tiger II using any ammunitiin.
The 17 pounder when firing APDS at the front of a Panther had only a 25% chance of penetrating at 500 yards. This is
according to British tests using captured Panthers.
The Tiger I might be about the same as the Panther in protection, though slope effects greatly helped the panther.
My understanding is that the YB-40s were more than capable of keeping up with the main bomber stream on the way to target, but once the main force had dropped their bombs they were simply too heavy and not fast enough.
One B-17E was converted to use Allison V-1710s instead of the Wright R-1820s, producing a noticeable, if not significant, performance gain. After initial combat reports some thought was given to using V-1710s on the YB-40s, but that died when the concept was abandoned.
".... The 17 pounder could under no circumstances penetrate the frontal armor of the Tiger II using any ammunition. ..."
Who shot Michael Whitman ....? and where ...?
MM
Proud Canadian
You guys had one of those at Port Moresby. Went all the way to rabaul to do some recon. Got attacked by zeros all the way back. Apparently it was severely altitude restricted by all the gun weight, the zeros were having a field day, but it shot most of them down and returned to base with a lot of holes and a few dead crew iirc. It was on Dogfights.
Two more...
"The Norden bombsight could put a bomb in a pickle barrel from 10,000 feet."
An obvious exaggeration, but an indication of the improvement in accuracy possible in skilled hands. Unfortunately, the sight required a clear view of the target from a considerable distance away, a long straight run to the target and accurate knowledge of ground wind conditions. A situation taken for granted in the clear air of California, but sadly not possible in cloudy European skies. Add a nineteen year old bomb-aimer, and the 8th Air Force's move to daylight area bombing was inevitable.
"The Miles M.52 supersonic research aircraft was 90% complete when cancelled in 1946."
In fact construction had barely started. The authoritative book 'Project Cancelled' says that "...90 per cent of the detail design had been completed, assembly jigs were finished, the component assembly programme was well advanced and the augmentor fan had been built." Which is not the same thing as 90% complete.
John
John, why don't you just provide the link to the site you are getting these from?
Wittmann was in a Tiger I".... The 17 pounder could under no circumstances penetrate the frontal armor of the Tiger II using any ammunition. ..."
Who shot Michael Whitman ....? and where ...?
MM
Proud Canadian
Good point. How about, that Germany's aviation industry was more technologically advanced than other belligerant powers. There was certainly a fright for it at the time for the Allies, but in reality the technical departments of all the major nations were pretty much én par. Most issues were industrial in nature.
On 27th. November, 1941, Pilot Officer Charles Palliser noted, in his logbook, that he'd flown "Faith" on a Met Flight. In 1943, as he left Malta, Lt-Col H.E.C. Weldon R.A., who'd commanded the British AA garrison, wrote ,"Looking down I saw below us Hal Far, with its memories of Faith, Hope and Charity." Also in 1943, Gloster Aircraft Co. named the Gladiators as F, H, C in their advertisements in "The Aeroplane." The booklet "The Air Battle of Malta," printed by HMSO, in 1944, includes the names in its narrative.
Good point. How about, that Germany's aviation industry was more technologically advanced than other belligerant powers. There was certainly a fright for it at the time for the Allies, but in reality the technical departments of all the major nations were pretty much én par. Most issues were industrial in nature.
Believe what you want.But none of that indicates that the names were applied during the combat use of the Gladiators. It's entirely feasible that the F, H, C names came into being in the period Jun-Nov 41 as a propaganda boost given that, by then, it was clear that Malta would not be taken. Thus it seems reasonable that the statements of Burges and others can be aligned.
Sorry, I disagree.Good point. How about, that Germany's aviation industry was more technologically advanced than other belligerant powers. There was certainly a fright for it at the time for the Allies, but in reality the technical departments of all the major nations were pretty much én par. Most issues were industrial in nature.