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fastmongrel replied to the thread Freak chance--battleship sunk by bombers om the open sea--in 1917.A Gotha had a cruising speed around 60 to 65mph. If the Gotha was spotted early enough Barham could probably turn into the wind and run...
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fastmongrel replied to the thread AHC: optimize Soviet performance in WW2.Stalin goes against paranoid dictator type and listens to what the excellent Soviet spy network is telling him. With the information...
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fastmongrel reacted to duckie's post in the thread No F-104 Starfighter for Europe! Alternate designs instead. with
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Yep, but they trained as they would fight. I lived in the 60's/70's in an German Low Flying Area. And the Low was Low. Flying beneath... -
fastmongrel replied to the thread Stuka's used on precision strikes on London during the Blitz?.Probably more humane to just line up the aircrews and shoot them before the mission
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fastmongrel replied to the thread A Wilder Wildcat.Hellcats (and all high performance radial engines) were vulnerable to a hit in the oil cooler. Late models of radial engines were not...
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fastmongrel replied to the thread Stuka's used on precision strikes on London during the Blitz?.The aircrew cost more to train than the aircraft costs to build. Then you have to train new crew and build a new plane for every...
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fastmongrel replied to the thread A Wilder Wildcat.Is there any extra power available from the twin wasp. It got to 1200hp fairly early then doesn't seem to have improved any more.