Comments by "GivenFirstName FamilyFirstName" (@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935) on "A Big Miss? The Gloster F.9/37" video.

  1. Grass means landing into wind on a big field, no cross-wind forces on the landing gear. It looks like it had ample wing area for reasonable landing speeds.
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  2. Apart from not being a significant wing sweep, two seat, inverted V-12 inline and single vertical stabiliser, forward internal bomb bay fighter bomber.
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  3. Look at the unsophisticated 1930s minimal taper fat wings, more of a Whitley than a Mosquito.
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  4. Greg would know a ridiculous rubbish engine fighter if he saw one.
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  5. Was it tested fully enough to determine if it actually was ‘an excellent aircraft’? The delta leading edge vertical stabilisers look worryingly like those on the unsatisfactory Halifax I and II. They were notorious for undiscovered in pre-service testing failure to cope with asymmetric flight or asymmetric stalls or asymmetric incipient spins. Group Captain Leonard Cheshire raised the alarm when he realised that almost no Halifax I and II bombers returned from bombing missions with a failed engine. If this Bristol twin was twitchy with opened cooling fins upstream of the vertical stabilisers it suggests that directional/yaw stability in both engines running powered flight could be marginal! Those little vertical stabilisers and rudders simply do not look as if they could go together with thousand horsepower plus engines in a (modern) twin.
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  6. Where does it mention Merlins being fitted?
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