"f86sabre" (f86sabre)
09/23/2013 at 21:45 • Filed to: Planelopnik
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"f86sabre" (f86sabre)
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P-38 shot in 1944. Been a while since I've done any planelopnik.
pdthedeuce
> f86sabre
09/23/2013 at 21:49 |
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but, when you do it, you do it right .
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f86sabre
> pdthedeuce
09/23/2013 at 21:54 |
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Kind of you to say so.
ttyymmnn
> f86sabre
09/23/2013 at 21:57 |
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Yours is more artistic, though.
wkiernan
> f86sabre
09/23/2013 at 22:18 |
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By Dec 44 they'd figured out how to trim them so they wouldn't shake themselves to bits in a dive. The balls it took to fly one of them to war, my mind boggles. And keep in mind the USA didn't just raise up a tiny handful of super-elite Top Guns, out of somewhat less than half our current population we recruited 200,000 war plane drivers. Show this bold Prussian that praises slaughter - slaughter brings rout!
Kugelblitz
> wkiernan
09/24/2013 at 10:32 |
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The Me-110 and the P-38 were both designed to meet the same requirements, a heavy interceptor. History shows which team did better, although the Me-110 saw a lot more bomber interceptor action than the P-38 ever did (axis bombers were sort of scarce after the BoB).
Love me some Lockheed in the morning.
Compressibility issues aside, the Lightnings did have a flat spin problem that was pretty deadly and it wound up killing one of our top Pacific aces.