If you are that nit-picky and strip anything to the bone, fine. Travel to D.C. to look up information in the Library of Congress. Nothing will have 100% correct information except under direct circumstances. A forum and wiki are good starts, the forum is a well known forum and I trust info I get from there because a lot of the things I have looked up from there before are CORRECT. And if you can't find any mode of numbers, make a mean of them. Can't tell if it had a max speed of 210 or 220? Not getting the info from anywhere else? Average it.
"Based on a true story?" Bah, What about "Helmet For My Pillow?" Or "Flyboys?" Or how about an encycolpedia which draws it's sources from actual facts and statistics from the time period? Just because it has a copyright insignia does not make it innaccurate.
there's always two sides to one story, but usually the story being told is only what the author chose, not necessarily the truth. A copyright it just means you wrote something and you tell everybody you own it. you can copyright just about anything you write, but it doesnt make it accurate. point is the original posting was dismissed by machfly based on the fact that it had wikipedia as a reference, which is annoying the least, without actually looking at the info, to see if it was accurate or not.
I also pointed out that the sources you listed are basically the same thing as wikipedia. truth is when i comes to ww2 aircraft, not even the manuals from back then are totally accurate. If you have ever been in the military, you know that what the manual says and how you do things, sometimes dont exactly match.
Lets take for example the Lancaster's corkscrew maneuver. It's been argued here that it was an excellent defensive maneuver. except for one little tiny detail. too many of them got shot down by enemy fighters, which kind of make you think it was not as successful as previously stated. but you can look and find many books about how crews used it to save their lives.
I guess the point that some of us were trying to make is wikipedia is a good reference source and to dismiss it just so somebody can pretend to be funny and post a pretty picture is kind of stupid.
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