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Offline FLOOB

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Re: The cost of the air war in WW2
« Reply #15 on: October 16, 2013, 12:40:31 PM »
Why do you say no?
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Offline MiloMorai

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Re: The cost of the air war in WW2
« Reply #16 on: October 16, 2013, 01:01:45 PM »
Quote from: FLOOB on October 16, 2013, 12:40:31 PM
Why do you say no?

Would you say the Fw190 was an easy a/c to take off and land?

A few years ago a guy did a study of JG26 when it was flying both a/c. The Fw190 had more landing accidents than the Bf109. :eek:

Bf109 incident/accident list mentions less than 1000 takeoff/landing accident out of 26000 loss cases.
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Offline Scherf

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Re: The cost of the air war in WW2
« Reply #17 on: October 18, 2013, 04:49:30 AM »
I imagine some of those takeoff and landing accidents were down to engine failure, as well.
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... missions were to be met by the commitment of alerted swarms of fighters, composed of Me 109's and Fw 190's, that were strategically based to protect industrial installations. The inferior capabilities of these fighters against the Mosquitoes made this a hopeless and uneconomical effort. 1.JD KTB
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