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01-28-2005, 06:33 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Saffron Walden/Sheffield
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 | Willy Messerschmit, the same guy who designed the Me262
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01-28-2005, 07:05 PM
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| "Shooter"   Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
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 | The idea behind the Me-163 was interesting, but the volatile fuels and the landing gear configuration were just a dangerous combination. I think as a research aircraft, it would have been one thing, but as a warbird, it was not effective.
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01-28-2005, 08:06 PM
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Only one of the fuels was dangerous. Here is avery good website for the Walter motor. http://www.walter-rockets.i12.com/walter/walter.htm Another website with an article by Rudy Opitz, the test pilot. http://www.flightjournal.com/fj/arti...63/me163_1.asp | |
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01-28-2005, 08:12 PM
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| "Shooter" Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
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| I don't think I have said a proper welcome, KK. Welcome, you seem to be settling in nicely. Good info in those links. 
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01-29-2005, 07:07 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: WSM, England
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 | Ok...we need to start compiling a list of contenders... |
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01-29-2005, 07:58 AM
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| Fairey Battle......... anyone who suggests the wordfish is seriously dead BTW..............
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01-29-2005, 08:00 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: WSM, England
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| Wordfish  Ok I thnk we got: Fairey Battle Blackburn B-25 Roc TBD Devastator Breda 88 Blackburn Botha Me-163 Komet I vote for Breda 88, after doing research I see it was dreadful... |
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01-29-2005, 08:06 AM
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| why can't you include the komet?? it was ahead of it's time but an absolute death trap...............
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01-29-2005, 08:08 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: WSM, England
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| Fine... |
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01-29-2005, 08:18 AM
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| i'm going for the battle then..............
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01-29-2005, 08:24 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: WSM, England
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| Why, at least it could fly... |
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01-29-2005, 08:26 AM
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| but it sucked..............
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01-29-2005, 08:30 AM
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| Wow, im convinced. Being told it sucked is enough to convince anyone how bad a plane is...use more detail...at least it could fly. The RAF didnt really have anything else to use... Not only was the Breda 88 poor in its role but it had extremely bad flight characteristics. |
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01-29-2005, 08:35 AM
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| didn't anything else to use?? there was absolutly no point in using the ones they did use, they weren't doing anything to stop the germans..............
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01-29-2005, 11:08 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004
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| I'm still going with the TBD. Obsolete at the start of the war. Terrible performance. Slaughtered at Midway.
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