EMail Topic:Hello Mr. Addink: Where do deleted BB threads go? I am looking for a thread of around 2004-2005 titled "FW-190 Veteran experience" or "FW-190 Pilot experience" or FW-190 Veteran pilot experience" It went on for at least 4 pages, maybe as many as seven, and the OP was a relative (nephew?), relaying his family member's experience as a FW-190A Western Front Ace. If you genuinely don't know where a thread on your site went, perhaps you could contact your moderator(s) of the time? The thread was likely deleted because the FW-190A pilot in question was an ace that used turnfighting exclusively, downthrottled before the merge, and easily out-turned P-51s at low altitude and low speeds, shooting them down after being tailed... This was a quite astonishing viewpoint, and something which, in the thread itself, was already drawing some totally unjustified hostile comments (of the lamest patriotic kind in some cases)... Probably in part this was due to the P-51's iconic status having clearly veered into the irrational... Most documented P-51 encounter reports (with the FW-190A) also show the complete opposite relationship at low alttudes.., [I suspect now because of something called "muscle memory" (from training at high altitudes), where the FW-190A was very delicate to handle...] This could have induced a moderator to think the family member's low atitude claims were faked, or misleading. Whatever the reason for the thread's deletion, this thread is the critical source of my theory on prop load asymmetry, and I will continue to mention it as the originating spark of all the subsequent research I have done on this issue... This will soon be of some significance, as my theory is now not only understood to be sound, but discussed by several PhDs, And really, it is rather an embarrassement to think that the "Old Flight Physics" assumed that a prop loaded to 30 pounds per square feet over 100 square feet, would take much less than one pound to be tilted one degree continuously... So I do hope you manage to locate the thread. (yes I did try Internet Archives, other types of archive searches, and scrolled through the entire period several times...) Keep in mind how this was likely the only time an actual WWII FW-190 ace pilot ever provided exclusive FW-190 content to Aces High BB, this actually creating a multi page thread, offering stunning details (like the wood prop ground striking risk, or the choice of 3 types of aileron chords, quite visible in photos, but never mentioned by any sources)... Just be aware that deleted threads do not always go away... Hopefully you will find it, but rest assured that, in either case, in a few years, you will hear way, way more about all this. On the good side: Simulation dogfights will, one day, actually resemble what the real things looked like... A perspective for which we should all rejoice.
No not Voss. The name escapes me at the moment, tho might be Gaston.
Voss?oh, gastonhttps://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,295840.0.htmlhttps://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,275682.0.html
More power simply pulls them into too wide a radius (which does not happen to pushers, for obvious leverage reasons)
On the good side: Simulation dogfights will, one day, actually resemble what the real things looked like
Guess who composed this fine production of knowledge beyond the limits of mortal man.Some people make my head hurt.HiTech
