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Title: Anyone researching planes and weapon tests, look here
Post by: Ring on December 31, 2003, 03:26:56 PM

me and some of the guys over at http://www.wwiionline.com are putting all of our PRO doc's together in 1 place.. along with other data.. this site has been adding new data about once a week.. so stop back and check out new stuff..

if you have and data you would like to add to ours email me at fw190 @ cox.net



http://prodocs.netfirms.com/


enjoy..

Title: anyone researching planed and weapon tests, look here
Post by: Kweassa on December 31, 2003, 05:58:16 PM

Thanks for the post.. looks interesting.

Title: anyone researching planed and weapon tests, look here
Post by: Rasker on January 02, 2004, 12:33:26 AM

Particularly interesting are the static tests of bomb near misses against tanks.  250 pounders hitting within 25 feet, and 500 pounders within 50 feet, were found to have a reasonable chance of jamming the turret and/or breaking or weakening the treads (hint hint).

Title: anyone researching planed and weapon tests, look here
Post by: Wolfala on January 02, 2004, 01:21:04 AM

I examined some of the vulnerability studies - ex the 109 to .303 ammo. The paper it was written on was of suchpoor quality that the text is nearly unreadable. From an archival POV - someone should transcribe what was written before that record is lost.



Wolfala

Title: anyone researching planed and weapon tests, look here
Post by: Virage on January 02, 2004, 10:32:08 AM

terrific resource.. thanks for sharing it.

Title: anyone researching planed and weapon tests, look here
Post by: Ring on January 02, 2004, 02:03:44 PM

some of those 303 vs F4 tests you need to take with a grain of salt... it was not a F4 in the test .. it was a old E3 or E4 that the added a "replica" F4 bulk head in for the test..


this is from a 1944 US doc. i own

http://www.axishq.wwiionline.com/~ring/info/planes/109farmor-info.gif

Title: anyone researching planed and weapon tests, look here
Post by: Wolfala on January 02, 2004, 02:34:43 PM

Oh clearly its conjecture - however I think as a historical document the text itself should be transcribed so it does not vanish - examine the documents that were posted - they were pretty badly deteroriated.

Title: anyone researching planed and weapon tests, look here
Post by: brady on January 02, 2004, 04:27:32 PM

Thought I recoginised you name form the WW2online Forums Ring, nice stuff their btw thanks for posting it.

Title: anyone researching planed and weapon tests, look here
Post by: Wolfala on January 02, 2004, 05:27:49 PM

BTW - I scanned the POH's for the P-51D/H, P-47N, P-38L and A-26 into pdf - all about 30-40 megs highres. Do you want those sent in?



Wolfala

Title: anyone researching planed and weapon tests, look here
Post by: Ring on January 02, 2004, 06:10:14 PM

my mail box aint that big :)

if you have icq or msn you can send them that way..

icq = 11488968

msn = lan_ohio@hotmail.com

its 7pm EST right now.. i get home at 10pm im online till 4am est

can you send it that way?

Title: anyone researching planed and weapon tests, look here
Post by: Wolfala on January 02, 2004, 06:22:42 PM

ICQ is fine - i'll put them in my shared folder.

Title: anyone researching planed and weapon tests, look here
Post by: F4UDOA on January 02, 2004, 08:00:34 PM

Wolfala,

How complete are your manuals? Do you have a complete appendix with them?

I have the P-47N but some of the appendix is missing. I have many others as well some are much better than others.

Title: anyone researching planed and weapon tests, look here
Post by: Wolfala on January 02, 2004, 08:41:03 PM

P47 is 111 pages - 1945 edition. I dont see an appendix per say - Its AF-51-127-4. I scanned everything though.