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Offline Ack-Ack

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« Reply #30 on: June 28, 2007, 01:36:48 AM »
But the flying on the deck isn't what made them stealthy to the radar systems at that time.  


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« Reply #31 on: June 28, 2007, 03:09:56 AM »
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Originally posted by yanksfan
Cartoon wood used in cartoon mossie's burns for an incredibly long time before its cartoon fuel tanks full of cartoon fuel explode.


Another problem with our cartoon Mossie.

It wasn't known for catching fire as easily as ours do.
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« Reply #32 on: June 28, 2007, 03:14:26 AM »
There can be other reasons why such a high flying lone plane is hard to detect. It partly depends of the frequency of the radar used and the angle of the reflecting parts +the absorption ability of the material.

E.g. one considered asset of Ho229 was its wing structure which was fully of wood and was considered an asset in avoiding radar detection. There is no evidence if this had been true in practice.

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« Reply #33 on: June 28, 2007, 04:56:21 AM »
there is an aircraft forum for that kind of talk....but bennydumb doesn't care about that kind of stuff
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« Reply #34 on: June 28, 2007, 10:52:37 AM »
The Mossie Airframe was a Wood Composite, of Balsa and Plywood, they sandwiched the Balsa between 2 thin sheets of Ply, which made for a good light airframe.

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« Reply #35 on: June 28, 2007, 04:36:32 PM »
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Whatever your intention, what you posted is known to science as bull****.


Sorry didn't realize we had a stealth expert in our midst? Care to elaborate?
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« Reply #36 on: June 28, 2007, 05:37:51 PM »
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I think it was stealthy because it didn't fly in a box of thousands.


and sometimes really low
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« Reply #37 on: June 28, 2007, 08:28:21 PM »
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Sorry didn't realize we had a stealth expert in our midst? Care to elaborate?


You posted that in the 10 days following June 11 1943, He-219s shot down six Mosquitos.

That is bull****.

It is such widely-quoted bull****, it should have its own page on Snopes.
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« Reply #38 on: June 28, 2007, 08:56:50 PM »
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the mesquito...a great flyer...better at recon...but not in this game

The mesquito fighter was made of all wood...exept the engine. Making it almost invisible to radar during WWII. But in this game, it shows up perfectly on radar. We should make it that the mesquito, a great plane....stealthy. like it was during WWII!

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