Could the Japanese have captured Ceylon and maybe force the India out of the War along with China? There's a thread over on warships1.com...
Faint Praise can be expensive I paid $190.00 for mine abut 6 years ago and was lucky at the time to get it for that price. Hunnicutt's books are...
How good or bad was it? On another website I've been told it's handling was awful,it's accuracy in bombing naval targets bad along with the...
I remember reading here that Werner Von Braun helped Robert Goddard's widow get royalties for patents that NASA used. However I was wondering if...
Well I posted a response.
A good point has already been raised in that even before the WNT the USN was having a rough time getting congress to even finish building what was...
Not for sure what your asking it seems you have to be bound by a treaty otherwise why have them.
So are you saying Germany wasn't bound by it after 1932? Or that she didn't agree on the methods to withdraw from it?
On another forum I've been lead to understand that the 5 Power Declaration of 1932 basically repudiated Versaillies how true is that? Are there...
Only thing I have to say is there s a big difference between making a few prototypes/conducting trials and getting something into serial production.
I've read a couple of sources stating that Enterprise carried 14 spares hanging from the hangar roof at the Battle of Santa Cruz along with 81...
When I said I realised that I meant I know alot of things affect performance . I just wanted an extra opinion or two on the issue of wether or not...
Oh I realise all of that but most of those documents are primary sources not something quoted by an author. In the Grumman Detail Specification...
In the following link to Mike Williams Spitfire Performance website you'll see various documents petaining to the F4F's performance however on...
Yes very very true but then again US fighters tended to carry far heavier ammo loadouts as per minutes of firing then their contemporaries. Also...
I think the USN conducted a test between a '190A and a F6F-3 which had the -3 hitting 390 MPH so who really knows sometimes???
Yes I know you are very careful and I should worded my response a little better. I use primary documents from the SpitfirePerformance website...
I'd be awful careful rating speeds. The F6F actually was probably much faster then the listed 376 MPH for the -3 and 380-385 MPH for the -5. I've...
How does the TBD compare to a Swordfish or Albacore???? How well could it say dive bomb???
Clint, Actually there's now evidence that Kirishima hit South Dakota maybe up to 5 times whilst Washington may have hit Kirishima upwards...
