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05-09-2004, 06:55 PM
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Country:  | Maybe that's because the Meteor engines were better?
__________________ "When you go home tomorrow, don't expect anyone to know what you have been through. Even if they did know, most people probably wouldn't care anyway. Some of you may get the medals you deserve, many more of you will not. But remember this, all of you are now members of the front-line club, and that is the most exclusive club in the world." - Lt. Col. Matthew Maer CO 1st Battalion, the Princess of Wale's Royal Regiment. Camp Abu Naji, Oct. 2004  To those in that club. | 
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05-14-2004, 01:47 PM
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#122 | | Master of Ewes
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Country: | i realise that, but it wasn't long between the E.28/39 and the advent of the meteor, it didn't give them long to deign a new engine...................
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05-14-2004, 07:54 PM
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Country: | Amazing things happen in Wars. A British Truck Company (I'll find the name) designed an engine for a tank in 18 days, and the engine was 10 times the power of anything they had designed before.
__________________ "When you go home tomorrow, don't expect anyone to know what you have been through. Even if they did know, most people probably wouldn't care anyway. Some of you may get the medals you deserve, many more of you will not. But remember this, all of you are now members of the front-line club, and that is the most exclusive club in the world." - Lt. Col. Matthew Maer CO 1st Battalion, the Princess of Wale's Royal Regiment. Camp Abu Naji, Oct. 2004 To those in that club. | |
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05-14-2004, 11:52 PM
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| Look at how quickly North American put out the design for the NA 73 - the eventual P-51. Something like 120 days.
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05-15-2004, 12:48 AM
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#125 | | Senior Member
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__________________ "When you go home tomorrow, don't expect anyone to know what you have been through. Even if they did know, most people probably wouldn't care anyway. Some of you may get the medals you deserve, many more of you will not. But remember this, all of you are now members of the front-line club, and that is the most exclusive club in the world." - Lt. Col. Matthew Maer CO 1st Battalion, the Princess of Wale's Royal Regiment. Camp Abu Naji, Oct. 2004 To those in that club. | |
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05-15-2004, 09:44 AM
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#126 | | Master of Ewes
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05-15-2004, 11:49 AM
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| So I was right.
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05-16-2004, 07:46 AM
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#128 | | Master of Ewes
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05-17-2004, 05:59 AM
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#129 | | Senior Member
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__________________ "When you go home tomorrow, don't expect anyone to know what you have been through. Even if they did know, most people probably wouldn't care anyway. Some of you may get the medals you deserve, many more of you will not. But remember this, all of you are now members of the front-line club, and that is the most exclusive club in the world." - Lt. Col. Matthew Maer CO 1st Battalion, the Princess of Wale's Royal Regiment. Camp Abu Naji, Oct. 2004 To those in that club. | |
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05-22-2004, 02:48 PM
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#130 | | Master of Ewes
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05-25-2004, 02:18 PM
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| yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
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05-25-2004, 02:54 PM
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05-25-2004, 02:59 PM
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#133 | | the old Sage
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Country:  | had the Luftwaffe had the Me 262A-1a with adequate fuel supplies in 1942 and no faulty engines they would of most probably been ready for the US heavy bomber raids to follow over the Reich. The outcome would of been hard to determine. | |
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05-25-2004, 10:59 PM
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| If the Luftwaffe had the 262 in 1942 they would have run over everybody, no question. If it could have been available in numbers (with fuel to fly and compotent pilots) in '44 is the situation were it becomes hard to deteremine, IMO.
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05-26-2004, 12:18 PM
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Country: | Having the Me-262 in 1942 would have caused major problems, but it wouldn't have been. Asking it without faulty engines, and enough fuel is asking a lot.
Being ready in 1944 I don't believe it could have done. It wouldn't have stopped D-Day (As the Germans didn't even know it was happening in Normandy) and the only real threat it would have caused would have been at the Bulge. Even then P-51s were still able to effectively dogfight with these things.
__________________ "When you go home tomorrow, don't expect anyone to know what you have been through. Even if they did know, most people probably wouldn't care anyway. Some of you may get the medals you deserve, many more of you will not. But remember this, all of you are now members of the front-line club, and that is the most exclusive club in the world." - Lt. Col. Matthew Maer CO 1st Battalion, the Princess of Wale's Royal Regiment. Camp Abu Naji, Oct. 2004 To those in that club. | |
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