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Have you ever noticed in some older cars the instrument dials can be seen reflected in the windshield, under some light conditions, like...

The aerodynamic penalty is almost nothing. If you look at the most often-quoted specs, the turtledeck has a best speed of 444 mph and...

Intuitively, I'd say curved side windows are better. To know exactly how much better you'd need wind tunnel tests and/or CFD. And enough...

This bubble canopy provides both good visibility and good enough aerodynamics for Mach 2. Compared to WWII planes distinctive features...

The Brits spent a lot of effort to develop high(er) pressure radiators, which enabled their radiators to be smaller and thus less...

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From what I read, early on the IJA tanks had the advantage of being there, since it was believed that they couldn't operate in the...

We laugh at Japanese tanks but look at the much vaunted Panzer divisions in May 1940. Plenty of I and II in that deck. So Japanese and...

Oh, absolutely. Perhaps I wasn't clear about that. If you want to get rid of BMW, say, the RLM probably have to tell them in 1935...

No disagreement here, but my question was actually "who", as in which manufacturer, if you want to go a step further.

Yes. An evergreen topic, we've been through this in multiple threads. Beyond pruning the various projects that were mostly just a suck...

IDK. Apart from the reliability issues the 801 seems to me an decent enough engine when it was introduced in autumn 1941. Perhaps a bit...

Do you have a source for the 250 kg weight penalty for the wing spar (spars?), steel vs. light alloy? Germany have had the problems in...

Well, opening fronts to the north, south, east, and west, without access to strategical resources like, say, petroleum, and then on top...

Writing was at the wall by the time 1941 ended - neither UK nor the Soviet Union were defeated (not at least some kind of an uneasy...