03-30-2004, 08:27 AM
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Sure, even if more complicated (190 D-9 different types of boost and different use: you ought to compare it to the Hawker Tempest, its natural enemy, ever red Clostermann's diary?) even if to be right and to talk about the bare designers' skills, we can note that till and beyond the arrive of the jet and rocket fighters (in the summer of '44), the german fighters performances suffered the lack of good (post 1943) materials and fuel plus the low quality of fuel... So strictly comparing the performances is not the only way to define where the best was. Hey! This matter recalls to me the tunic one! . The post '43 average allied pilot could count on abundance of well produced aircraft and very good fuel.<br>
In spite of it and seeing the great amount of personal victories (even if the most of them, in the eatern front) we have to admit that the german pilots knew better how to get the best from their few machines. And that Germans designed and built the prototypes of a lot of ultra modern aircraft, never mass-produced due mainly to factories rivalries and to Hitler's stupidity. Russians and Americans used those projects to make their air-power in the following 40 years.<br>
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Anyway I also like a lot the Spit XIV, especially the nose - engine - 5 bladed prop section. Its RR Griffon engine suits it better than Merlin, so, it's really a beauty of plane. And as you know, the fine planes fly always well!<br>
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Vale,<br>
Titus<br>
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Sure, even if more complicated (190 D-9 different types of boost and different use: you ought to compare it to the Hawker Tempest, its natural enemy, ever red Clostermann's diary?) even if to be right and to talk about the bare designers' skills, we can note that till and beyond the arrive of the jet and rocket fighters (in the summer of '44), the german fighters performances suffered the lack of good (post 1943) materials and fuel plus the low quality of fuel... So strictly comparing the performances is not the only way to define where the best was. Hey! This matter recalls to me the tunic one! . The post '43 average allied pilot could count on abundance of well produced aircraft and very good fuel.<br>
In spite of it and seeing the great amount of personal victories (even if the most of them, in the eatern front) we have to admit that the german pilots knew better how to get the best from their few machines. And that Germans designed and built the prototypes of a lot of ultra modern aircraft, never mass-produced due mainly to factories rivalries and to Hitler's stupidity. Russians and Americans used those projects to make their air-power in the following 40 years.<br>
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Anyway I also like a lot the Spit XIV, especially the nose - engine - 5 bladed prop section. Its RR Griffon engine suits it better than Merlin, so, it's really a beauty of plane. And as you know, the fine planes fly always well!<br>
<br>
Vale,<br>
Titus<br>
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TITVS/Daniele Sabatini
... Tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum
desinet ac toto surget Gens Aurea mundo,
casta faue Lucina; tuus iam regnat Apollo ...
Vergilius, Bucolicae, ecloga IV, 4-10
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... Tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum
desinet ac toto surget Gens Aurea mundo,
casta faue Lucina; tuus iam regnat Apollo ...
Vergilius, Bucolicae, ecloga IV, 4-10
