Russians? The German air force training establishment at Lipetsk trained 230 pilots between 1925-1933.
It would have lessened the pressure on LW fighter organization and bloomed the LW night fighter production. Since the RAF and USAF lacked a...
If the answer is yes to "could the US B-52s or B-1Bs infiltrate Russia from the north or is there a danger where US submarines might launch cruise...
But the time ran over the plane. At the time of GW1, the missions that the F-111s were flying was also flown by planes that could do the same...
The all-knowing google tells range for a hi-lo-lo-hi mission for each plane as: Tornado: 650nm TSR-2: around 1000 F-111: 600 TSR-2's range...
If memory servers right, only one tornado was lost during an attack which required for the plane to fly straight and level while cratering the...
The reason why B-1B, F-111 and TSR-2 all had bad design missions were shown by Tornado GR.1s in Gulf war 1. Utter waste of money and lives.
Not sure if I have linked a similar paper in here before, but the USAF is actively developing a new generation nuclear engine....
It bled energy off like a brick in the water in a turn, and it definitely wasn't a nimble fighter. However, the jug retained most of its roll...
The mighty Google tells me that the Australian Spit mk. VIII owned by Colin Pay (ownership transferred to David Lowy in year 2000) seems to have...
The choice for fighter armament is pretty much up to what the fighters were tasked to do. US fighters with escort missions, where their opposition...
Nice and very informative post, TISO. The Finnish fighter tactics for ww2 seems to agree with on where to shoot the plane in order to get it down....
Of course "difficult to shoot down" doesn't mean "impossible to shoot down" :) There are many eastern front pilots with dozens of Il-2 kills,...
According to Hartmann, Nowotny, Juutilainen, Wind, Barkhorn, Rall, Batz, Rudorffer, Graf and pretty much everyone else who were there: Yes, it...
Oh <curse word>, I of course meant that _you_ were correct, Simon! No idea why I wrote Siberian Black. Sturmovik was the plane that was...
Ricky, I never did try to imply that I thought that you were implying that the P-47 was a bad plane :P My intention was only to make Commando...
You got that right, Ricky. However, no bad plane can rack such a high number of aces with only being "a long time in the service" . Can you...
For top 10 USAF fighter aces in ETO, 7 flew Thunderbolts and only 3 flew Mustangs. Can we say as well that the jug is even better at air combat...
You'd rather take a water cooled engine, which can be taken out by a single bullet in the coolant system, down to the bush opposed to an engine...
You don't need a "tank sized" parachute for LAPES system. The chute is there just to decelerate the forward movement. Even for the more...
