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Re: Since we're all being silly...
« Reply #30 on: October 13, 2010, 10:59:47 PM »
It was either that or a 500x600 of a model. I prefer the real thing.  :P

You could have simply downsized it.
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Re: Since we're all being silly...
« Reply #31 on: October 13, 2010, 11:15:24 PM »
You could have simply downsized it.


Duely noted.
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Re: Since we're all being silly...
« Reply #32 on: October 13, 2010, 11:28:20 PM »
Volksjeager ftw. Lemme know if you guys need a bigger pic.

yup, bigger pic needed. :)
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Re: Since we're all being silly...
« Reply #33 on: October 13, 2010, 11:35:39 PM »
Looking at some of the stuff here, we are pretty lucky that Hitler was a wacko and some projects got stalled or FUBARed.
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Re: Since we're all being silly...
« Reply #34 on: October 13, 2010, 11:48:38 PM »
Looking at some of the stuff here, we are pretty lucky that Hitler was a wacko and some projects got stalled or FUBARed.

The influence of Hitler is usually vastly overrated. Lot of myths about that.

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Re: Since we're all being silly...
« Reply #35 on: October 13, 2010, 11:50:17 PM »
Looking at some of the stuff here, we are pretty lucky that Hitler was a wacko and some projects got stalled or FUBARed.

Allied bombing campaigns are much more responsible for the retardation of such projects.
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Re: Since we're all being silly...
« Reply #36 on: October 14, 2010, 08:22:41 AM »
Its amazing what a simple 1000-lb. bomb can do to a technology race, eh?
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Re: Since we're all being silly...
« Reply #37 on: October 14, 2010, 10:47:44 AM »
Don't kid yourself...... The level of technological improvements between the Allied nations, vs. the Nazi Party..... Is like night and day.  And if it weren't the persecution of the Jews, men like Einstein, Peierls, Frisch & Szilárd would never have left their countries. 

Allied bombing campaigns are much more responsible for the retardation of such projects.

The heavy bombing, starting in '43, simply kept the Germans from resupplying their forces and forcing the shutdown of many projects.  German production process was the true culprit....  The King Tiger was so dam hard to make from a resource/money perspective.  Countless others.  The German's beat themselves.
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Re: Since we're all being silly...
« Reply #38 on: October 14, 2010, 10:49:55 AM »
Hey Llogan, what is the name of the plane you posted the picture on?  She is a beauty!
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Re: Since we're all being silly...
« Reply #39 on: October 14, 2010, 10:54:03 AM »
Hey Llogan, what is the name of the plane you posted the picture on?  She is a beauty!

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Re: Since we're all being silly...
« Reply #40 on: October 14, 2010, 11:19:11 AM »
Agreed LLogan. Had the Germans focused work on a single type of fighter, the Fw-190 and 262 for example, instead of all of these radical projects, things could have been different, at least prolonged.

But I think its all tied together, too. Taking away the ability to produce weapons certainly puts pressure on all of the other aspects of making war, including developing technology. If anything, the destruction of Germany's industrial capacity sped the technology along, as they were desperately trying to find something to turn the tide.

Fortunately, the scientists that left Germany robbed the Nazi party of huge advances in technology that may have impacted the outcome, or most likely, duration, of the war.

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Re: Since we're all being silly...
« Reply #41 on: October 14, 2010, 11:19:43 AM »
Appears to be an F7F  :aok

The Bearcat?  I have heard of them, but not seen them.  Sexy bird!
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Re: Since we're all being silly...
« Reply #42 on: October 14, 2010, 11:22:49 AM »
The Bearcat?  I have heard of them, but not seen them.  Sexy bird!

Actually, I think it's the Tigercat. Bearcat is F8F if I remember correctly.

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Re: Since we're all being silly...
« Reply #43 on: October 14, 2010, 11:24:51 AM »
Actually, I think it's the Tigercat. Bearcat is F8F if I remember correctly.

I have never been a cat person, always liked dogs!  :lol  Thanks for the clear-up on the name.  Still sexy!!!!
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Re: Since we're all being silly...
« Reply #44 on: October 14, 2010, 11:29:48 AM »
Yes Sir.... The Tigercat.  4200 HP's coming from the P&W R-2800-34W's, climbing at 4,500 fpm, with 4 .50's and 4 20's (both M2 variety)  Too late for WWII, 10 year career, but saw little action in Korea.  

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